"But who pays for their tax breaks?"rotor wrote:This is always the argument isn't it. I too run a business, have a payroll, bought property to house it, pay taxes at the business rate. But I do not get any tax relief. As a matter of fact most businesses that are small mom and pop shops don't get that tax break. You know they say that it is small business that creates wealth. I create wealth but get no tax breaks. I wish i could and if they were offered I would take them. Is there a benefit to bringing business to Texas- no question there is. But who pays for their tax breaks? They don't pay property tax and that means they don't pay for the schools, fire department, etc. In my local city there have been huge tax breaks given for multi-billion dollar companies. Our city council has given multi million grants to business that have folded in 6 months. I have been open for 30 years without receiving a penny but I sure pay my taxes. Is the job that I created less worthy than the Magpul job? Again, when you give something away either to the 49% that don't pay taxes or to a corporate structure someone has to pay for it. I don't like paying for the 49% non-working parasites and I don't like paying for corporate structures. But I do like Magpul and wish them success. Oh, the argument with giving money to the 49% welfare folks is that it builds up the economy as they spend it all. Sure! You know what they call people who want to spend your money for the "good" of the economy, democrats.jmra wrote:Hum, let's see. They buy property and improve it. They bring wage earners (into an area full of people cashing a government check) who buy houses and groceries and cars, etc.rotor wrote:Very glad they are coming here and I wish they were bringing their manufacturing here too. But when they get a taxbreak some little old lady that can't afford medicines or food has just seen her property tax go up. To me freedom means that I am not paying for someone else to have the benefits of my labor. Corporate welfare redistributes money from the poor to the rich. Wyoming is getting most of the Magpul jobs.
Win win.
This is what gets me every time. Please tell how a business that was not previously here getting a tax break "costs" anyone else money? More than likely they are going to build on or purchase property that taxes were not being paid on to begin with. You weren't collecting money from the business before they got here but somehow now that they are here they are "costing" us money. That's the Dems argument and it simply doesn't hold water. Money that could have been collected from them had they come here without the incentives is not a "cost" because they wouldn't have come here without it. A percentage of nothing is still nothing.
Now factor in the impact that the employees that are coming with them will have especially on small business and it is a win, period.
What does that have to do with the topic at hand?
