"Mark A" > wrote in message
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> "News" > wrote in message
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>> Profit or loss is not the issue.
>>
>> The issue is municipalities issuing incentives to steal other
>> municipalities' businesses and tax revenues.
>>
>> Not even a zero sum game, a race to the bottom.
>
> Not any different than a business (or individual proprietor) who lowers
> their prices to attract more business away from other businesses. Other
> countries do the same thing to attract business to offshore locations.
> That's the way the system works. If you don't like it, there is still
> North Korea or Cuba that you can move to.
>


Close attention to the workings of your city or town council will reveal
that such dealings are not always based on good business sense.
Unfortunately, such close attention might require ripping yourself away from
television once or twice a month.