Earth to Erik....Business IS the engine of this country.
How is this NOT business? Businesses across the country are given very nice tax abatements, from cities all across the country, as an incentive to bring their companies there.
Folks who are complaining about this deal - which was a great deal for NYC - are reminding me of the Occupoopers/lefties, who complain about The Man being too wealthy and holding down the workers. What they’re not realizing is the benefit to EVERYONE when jobs are produced and the local economy benefits.
Well said, Jane.
You are a naive fool.
This is not free market capitalism. This is crony capitalism or quasi-socialism.
If you come and genuflect to your masters, they will give you a tax break for your business.
If you are not a party member in good standing, then we will not give you the incentives.
Since when is this the right way for our government and businesses to run?
What is conservative about admiring state control over who gets incentives?
You fawn all over this because it created jobs and bailed the city out of something they should not have been involved with in the first place.
Why does Trump's golf course get a tax incentive, but someone else's business does not? What happened to equal treatment under the law?
You make me sick by admiring the very thing that is helping to eat away at the greatest nation to ever exist.
I really thought FReepers were smarter than this. How do people think new businesses are brought to a city/state?