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To: DugwayDuke
Let's see. You want to give tax breaks and reduced regulation to some companies and not to others. Now, why would you do this for any other reason but to "pick winners and losers"?

There is no place in this proposal to restrict access to these zones to some companies and not others.

Now, why would you restict these benefits to companies that "American company employing Americans using American materials"? What if a company could create more jobs if it used non-American materials?

The whole purpose is to get the maximum benefit to America as soon as possible I would be more tahn happy to see this implemented accross the whole economy with no such restrictions as it would IMHO have most beneficial effects but demonstration projects are more likely to get through first.

...What if the products produced by these "American companies employing Americans using American materials" are still more expensive? Haven't you used one person's tax dollars to subsidize another person? How is this "fair"?

Since there is no tax subsidy involved merely a tax benefit fiven to anyone who makes the free choice to invest in these zones and follow the initial rules if they can not produce a product economically for a price they can get in the free market I presume they will go out of business. If, however, they are able to compete more effectively then I presume there will be an increased demand to locate in these zones, expand these zones and hopefully expand this economic envirornment throught the nation.

Due to the fact that anyone will be able to locate in these zones there is no subsidy of one to exclude another. In short if I could by my words alone abolish the income tax I would but this is a short term means to that eventual end.

The alternative is some sort of welfare system and transfer payments that will make things far far worse in term of fairness.

97 posted on 07/05/2003 10:40:06 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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To: harpseal
"There is no place in this proposal to restrict access to these zones to some companies and not others."

Didn't you restrict these zones to companies with policies you prefer? Aren't you picking and choosing?

"Since there is no tax subsidy involved merely a tax benefit fiven to anyone who makes the free choice to invest in these zones and follow the initial rules if they can not produce a product economically for a price they can get in the free market I presume they will go out of business."

And, if they still can't compete, would you then enact protective tarriffs? Who would pay these tarriffs?
107 posted on 07/05/2003 2:26:32 PM PDT by DugwayDuke
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