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> Why are you so against this? Why should the people of Austin, Texas gift millions of dollars to a company that made a profit of over $8 billions in the last
by bildung 6y ago
> Why are you so against this?
Why should the people of Austin, Texas gift millions of dollars to a company that made a profit of over $8 billions in the last quarter alone?
- adriancr 6y agoI've seen places refuse to budge and lose out the investments I've also seen Intel refuse to negotiate price for chips with Apple for the original iPhone and look how great that turned out for them and TSMC
- ClumsyPilot 6y agoSometimes youve gotta show backbone. "I'be seen people refuse to give their boss a blowjob and lose out on promotions"
- imtringued 6y agoThe number of cities losing out does not change. If there are X competing cities X-1 cities will always lose out.
- hardolaf 6y agoThis is a company asking a city, that will see no income taxes from the at most 2,000 employees, permission to pay zero taxes at all to the city in exchange for the honor of housing a future EPA Super Fund site. Sure, the city will get some sales tax revenue from the 2,000 who will almost assuredly live outside of the city. So they'll get what, 6.25% of a $10 lunch from maybe 30% of workers per day? So they'll expect about $100k/yr in tax revenue in exchange for more road utilization and a future EPA Super Fund site. That doesn't seem like a good deal for the city. And that's assuming 100% of the sales tax goes to the city which it doesn't. Most of that goes to the county and state.