The right's obsession with AOC

[Belsnickel]

(02-27-2019, 10:42 AM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I understand the average person being upset by a company getting a tax break, but that kind of incentivizing is par for the course in luring business to an area, especially a tax heavy area like NYC.  Unless you give away the farm the local government does nothing but gain, and in this case gain huge, in the long run.

There is a criticism in doing things like that, though. When states use incentives like that specific to a company it is effectively choosing winners and losers in the market. The more equitable way to lure businesses to the state is to make overall policies more business friendly. We have relied on these sorts of incentives in Virginia for a long time, as well, and analyses done of our economic health have pointed to them as weaknesses that we need to shore up before they come back around to bite us in the ass. And we are more pro-business than states like New York or California, so I can only imagine what they deal with.