Where do you get the premise that the people living there don't come out ahead? You have something which, if it moves in, would pay more in property that than

Where do you get the premise that the people living there don't come out ahead? You have something which, if it moves in, would pay more in property that than it consumes in services. Even at a significant discount to the ordinary property tax rate. If the net benefit after the discount is +$1M/year to the local coffers then the local people are benefiting in that amount, and it's easy to see numbers like that even after offering significant tax incentives.