Hug trees much. How is bringing jobs to a poor county a scandal? Although I don’t live near there, I do live in rural Georgia.
A county is zoned a certain way. If someone is proposing to zone a huge tract of land in a different way, the citizens have the right to vote on it and have a fair public hearing of their views.
Another point is that in a big project like this, the Jobs Scam expert Greg LeRoy estimates that the State tax breaks are likely to exceed $1 billion dollars. And that hurts every taxpayer in the State.
Yet Kemp has been cagey about what the incentives are. And I think we know why.
The best disinfectant is sunshine.
In a couple weeks I’m posting another Rivian story that looks at the financial impact to the State and how Kemp is continuing the practice of giving away the store.
Recall the Jobs Scam that Amazon pulled off a couple years ago regarding its “second Headquarters”. Often the Amazons of the world know exactly where they want to put a new facility and their intend to make a contest out of their selection while while squeezing the target city/state as much as possible.
Interesting, when AOC and Bernie Sanders balked at Amazon taking their Jobs Scam to New York City, that’s probably one issue where many FReepers could agree with them on.
There are many kinds of Corporate Welfare, of course. And Greg LeRoy estimated the damage of these Jobs Scams to be worth $50 billion a year in 2005.
Because the county ISN’T POOR, by any means.
It’s not an inner city neighborhood that has no one living in it, with decaying buildings, warehouses, etc.
For starters.