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Big loss for RTP area in North Carolina which was favored to land it, but got nothing. Guess they pay for the disgraceful performance of the NC General Assembly
by throwaway5752 8y ago
Big loss for RTP area in North Carolina which was favored to land it, but got nothing. Guess they pay for the disgraceful performance of the NC General Assembly in the past several years - at least enough that TX tax policies won out.
- JeremyNT 8y agoAs a resident of the Triangle, it sure doesn't feel like a big loss to me. Do we actually benefit by handing out tax breaks to a megacorp just so it can relocate a few thousand jobs to the area? We've got our own problems related to growth already, we surely don't need to grow even faster - especially not by adding companies that effectively contribute nothing back financially to support all the needed infrastructure (after all the tax breaks).
- throwaway5752 8y agoI think so. More jobs, higher salaries, higher overall tax receipts, halo job creation... all of that makes for more money to improve infrastructure. There's a lot that I could say about this more specifically, but I will leave it at, yes, I think this would have been good for the Triangle.