Even with the economy picking up a little, if a company goes to a state with high unemployment and says, "Hey, if you give us a tax break, we'll bring in 1000 jobs", most of them will bend over and take it.
Yeah, I know. I mean, look at Arkansas, you've got their state governor giving state tax money to that idiotic Creationist theme park the Creation Museum's people want to build.
Well... that's more "they qualified under the tourism rules" and to deny them would lead to a lawsuit, as you can't deny them just because it's a Creationist thing.
If a Buddhist tourism thing wanted to be there, and hit the same quals, they'd get money, too.
I hadn't heard about this thing in South Carolina, but I did hear about the thing in Texas, in which Amazon closed their Texas-based warehouses when the Texas comptroller demanded they pay up the sales taxes they owed.
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Even with the economy picking up a little, if a company goes to a state with high unemployment and says, "Hey, if you give us a tax break, we'll bring in 1000 jobs", most of them will bend over and take it.
Especially the At Will states in the South.
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If a Buddhist tourism thing wanted to be there, and hit the same quals, they'd get money, too.
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http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/amazon_bolts_texass_unfavorabl.php