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To: DirkZ who wrote (10224)	6/15/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) of 62549

Not a joke, but amusing HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) - In the past decade Intel's billion-dollar computer chip plants have transformed this sleepy farm town into a silicon forest of high-paying jobs, new subdivisions and rush-hour traffic jams. Now, having found out that it's possible to have too much of a good thing, the locals are offering Intel a new set of tax breaks that contain a unique proviso: Don't create too many jobs. As part of a $200 million tax-break package expected to be approved Tuesday, the county will, in effect, fine Intel $1,000 for every manufacturing job created over a cap of 5,000. It's an unprecedented answer to the problem of too much economic development, too fast. And it comes at a time when other communities are going to extremes to attract big businesses and the jobs they bring. In another time and place, this would have been very funny.

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