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Originally Posted by NICKG View Post
they get the jobs...mosty don't even pay municipal taxes or property taxes. My economics professer at schooll says that is one of the reasons most put stores where they are. He would be right i think (he is one of the cheif economists at AT&T) there is also a book about it ..i will get the title.
so YEA you pay taxes ..I pay taxes...they don't. and further they keep the x% sales tax as a free profit center...while you pay them it
That's correct.

My last company out grew the town we were in.

We moved a few towns over and built a couple of new buildings, a few hundred thou of space and 1000+ employees.

Town gave us a $5 M tax break.

The town was dying and needed a corp anchor like us to attract more.
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