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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Elsewhere who wrote (27832)2/4/2004 6:00:22 AM
From: greenspirit  Read Replies (1) of 793742
 
That's a flipped upside down way of looking at it. If a company doesn't come to your town, there are no taxes being generated. If a company comes into your town by being given a tax incentive, they haven't necessarily taken money out of your pocket, they have taken less out of the companies pocket, because of all the other jobs and revenue being generated by their presence.

There is a financial balancing act at play. In a severely depressed area, like Alghero, jobs and growth are in desperate need, so the town has more incentive to give greater tax breaks. But the bottom line is; local towns and local people should have the freedom to work out business arrangements with corporations in the field of airline travel without some bureaucrat from London, Germany or France dictating policy to them.

Especially when you know, that process is being manipulated by special interests behind the scene trying to save their back-side due to new competition eating their shorts.
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