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To: TimF who wrote (607405)	4/11/2011 1:03:36 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1580280

If they don't give the corps what they want, they move. Then that corporation moves. Not an acceptable answer. A community needs jobs. People can't live by your ideology alone. Sorry. Instead of giving special breaks to one favored industry, you can have lower corporate taxes (or all taxes) across the board. That's a special break. Why should corps get a break on taxes and put the burden on private citizens? Even if one company that doesn't get the special break leaves, there will be others. The special breaks rarely work out. For example the development of sports arenas almost never sparks enough additional growth to make the tax breaks (and direct subsidies as well, since the team owners often get those too) worthwhile. Let the company, or team move, just don't have a government environment that discourages other business. I do agree with you that special breaks rarely work out. All too frequently they lead to more requests for special breaks. But communities don't have a choice. They need jobs. Its very cost ineffective having people move every time a corp moves......so its better to get the corp to stay. That's how capitalism works in this country. Its pretty ineffective.

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