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> But it's not less in local coffers. The local government is giving a local tax break, which comes out of their local tax revenue. > If the incentive was not
by ceejayoz 6mo ago
> But it's not less in local coffers.
The local government is giving a local tax break, which comes out of their local tax revenue.
> If the incentive was not given, the datacenter would not be built there.
Objection, your honor, assuming facts not in evidence!
(Nor are the incentives any sort of guarantee. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-billion-wisconsin-project-touted-by-trump.html https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/21/foxconn-mostly-abandons-10-b...)
> Residents aren't paying more for anything and no services are being cut.
They are receiving less tax revenue than they would have otherwise had to use on their services.
- newfriend 6mo agoYou are assuming the datacenter would be built there without the incentive. That is highly unlikely.
- ceejayoz 6mo agoYes, I'm assuming Facebook still needs the datacenter, and that the company that wasted $80B on the Metaverse can pay some taxes.
- newfriend 6mo agoThere are 50 states in the US and plenty of other locations to build datacenters. "Still needing the datacenter" isn't a reason to build it in this specific location. It's ok to just admit you were wrong.
- ceejayoz 6mo ago> There are 50 states in the US and plenty of other locations to build datacenters. Yes, and we should ban them from issuing these sorts of race-to-the-bottom sweetheart deal at taxpayer expense to trillion dollar corporations to address that.
- triceratops 6mo agoI hear unionization is great for collective bargaining. Maybe the states should form a union...