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Corporations should pay taxes, people should not pay taxes to corporations.
by typeformer 8y ago
Corporations should pay taxes, people should not pay taxes to corporations.
- skybrian 8y agoIs it your position that governments shouldn't pay businesses to build highways and bridges? Which government contractors do you think are okay?
- typeformer 8y agoNope that's not my argument
- ehsankia 8y agoWell if you had taken the time to read the article, you would know that they are offering this as a way of getting paid for doing real construction. The other option is getting paid in a single sum. The tax route is not only better for the city's financing, it also means that if Google's vision isn't as successful, they get less money back. So they will be invested in making it succeed.
- typeformer 8y agoIt also creates the potential for perverse incentive issues, maybe not with this project, but this project will set a precedent for others.
- wolco 8y agoWhy would you pay a private company to build highways? I can't think of a job more suited to a public agency. Next your going to tell me how great tolls are.
- zjaffee 8y agoHow do you think roads get built? The vast majority these sorts of projects are built by contractors, where the public largely just employs full-time workers for the design/finance side of things and then also maintenance.
- bradleyjg 8y agoCivil service rules make it very difficult for the government to hire people for limited periods of time. What would the government do with highway construction workers after the job was done? Sure there might be another project three states away, but it’s not reasonable to tell workers they have to move every few years.