"Mark A" > wrote in message
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> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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>> Hopefully you'll stay focused on this concept. It goes on constantly with
>> lots of businesses, including Wal Mart and others you're highly aware of.
>
> It happens with all business, depending on the size of the business and
> how many jobs, tax revenue, property tax revenue, etc it brings into the
> city, state, etc. No one is forcing the city or state to do this, but
> financial analysis shows that it is beneficial. You take a bunch of
> undeveloped land and make a factory or store, and now the property taxes
> or sales taxes being generated are huge, and offset the initial tax breaks
> or infrastructure development required (there would be zero taxes to give
> breaks on if they don't have incentive to move their business there). Then
> on top of the business by itself, you have the property tax and income
> revenue from the new employees, and then the multiplier effect of the
> money that they spend at other businesses.
>
> This is not about capitalism vs. socialism, this is about democracy versus
> totalitarianism. There are dictators like JoeSpareBedroom who want to tell
> other people how to run other people's city or state, even though he
> doesn't even live there. In a democracy, majority rules and if you don't
> like it you can move to the Peoples Republic of Berkley or some other
> suitable place that you will happier living in.


Financial analysis does not always show that it is beneficial. Be careful
with your generalizations. You will now respond in a predictable fashion.