billionare welfare queens
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That went soooo well for Louisiana
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I mean, we get lots of tax breaks, they're just highly dependent on increasingly arcane rulesets that are ever-changing and still designed to keep you on the edge of poverty. And then they're paid for with higher taxes in years following.
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I keep saying it, so maybe I should make a meme of it:
The key ingredient for data centers in the US is not an abundance of water and power, but cheap, bribeable regional officials.
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Rich ppl are a threat to civilization and need to be significantly disempowered.
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Well, that's because they create jobs.
Oh ,wait.
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Thanks for the red, squiggly underline. I'm recovering from my fifth lobotomy this week, and it really aids comprehension.
Ohio is the upper Midwest Mississippi
Politicians should get no peace. No taking out the garbage, no going out to eat, none of it without a mob screaming in their faces 24/7.
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Maybe tax breaks should have to be passed via referendum
Say what you want about Cleveland but they have an awesome newpaper.
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Ohio is a magat shithole may they get everything they voted for
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I should save this for the next time I see “billionaires pay more tax than you”.
People get lots of tax breaks. But tax breaks are helpful proportional to your tax debt.
A 10% tax reduction on $1000 is a pittance compared to $1M
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Thanks Obama..
Even if you look at it through a pure numbers view, places that do this are dumb. Data centers have a figurative two people working in them. They are not getting paid enough and spending enough to cover the tax loss of the kind of cuts they are offering the company to get them.
I have fantasies that some day we may hunt billionaires (and anyone who refuses to abandon the wealth) much the way we hunted escaped high-ranking Nazis after WWII.
We're going to need to collectively get really mad for this to happen, though since whenever someone does a socialism the capitalists get aggressive, so a rising socialist civilization emerging from the ashes of empire might go after the ultra-wealthy as a pre-emptive defensive measure.
For now it's all just blue-sky fantasy, though.
State government foregoing potential tax revenue to guarantee the purchasing of equipment from in-state suppliers. There is a logic to it.
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Data centers don't sell anything directly to consumer in order to collect taxes. Taxes are only applied to the end user.
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