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One question because I respect your position: do you believe that cities should have any tools available to incentivize "preferred" companies to come to the cit
by ballenf 9y ago
One question because I respect your position: do you believe that cities should have any tools available to incentivize "preferred" companies to come to the city?
I'm guessing your answer would be it can design its tax code so long as the tax code applies to all comers that meet the agnostic definitions therein.
The problem, however, is that opens up the question as to how fine-grained the definitions can become. It's not very hard to write tax regulations that are so narrow they only apply to one company while still on the surface appearing to be agnostic and naming no company.
IMO, it's a sliding scale of specificity and maybe you're right that there is a line somewhere that shouldn't be crossed, but it's more difficult than you suggest to figure out and describe where that line should be.