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Questionmarktarius posted...

DelianSK posted...

This is all money they didn't have before. The city isn't suddenly losing billions of dollars. It's not money they had to begin with. What they are saying is, well we can lower your taxes some if you choose to build here and employ our citizens.

But, the better idea is policy that encourages local economic conditions that make a business want to be there, instead of overt bribery and kingmaking.
Instead of a sweetheart tax deal for that one big company you want, just have lower taxes instead.

At best, these deals are the rough equivalent of "ladies night" at a bar. At worst, it's just dumping money down a hole.

Because what these companies want is lower taxes. I think a tradeoff of saying (NUMBERS ARE MADE UP) well, normally you would have to pay us 2 million in taxes, but since you're emplying all of these people from the area and we are getting taxes from them as well, we will accept 1 million dollars.

The reason people want it is because it's a huge, huge, HUGE deal for a city.

Edit: And your ladies night comment.... don't ladies night bring more people to the bars?
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