"Tim" > wrote in message
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> Mark A wrote:
>> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> 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.
>
> Still taxpayer funding. Is it as bad as a loan in poor economic times?
> People seem to think it's just the Big Three that are asking for taxpayer
> handouts.


......especially to companies which have proven that they aren't being run in
a competent fashion, and have no clear plan for fixing that problem.