04-13-2024, 03:49 PM
(04-13-2024, 02:37 PM)Bytor Wrote:(04-13-2024, 01:34 PM)ac3r Wrote: For everyone saying we shouldn't help out companies coming to our region, would you say the same for tech? We provided many incentives for the plethora of tech companies to come here. If it weren't for them, this region wouldn't have changed the way it did. Or, are you only against this because it's possibly for automobile manufacturing and in our suburbs?
I don't think anybody minds helping businesses, as long as it isn't outright corporate welfare.
The problem here is that the specific incident was done in a shady, secretive, and underhanded way, and directly contradicts long-held goals of The Region.
Lol...I mean, I do oppose corporate handouts for the tech sector too.
But improving downtown (or gentrifying) if you want to call it that is not the same thing as a corporate handout. The cities which bent over backwards to give Amazon the most money so they'd move in their HQ2 were utterly pathetic.
But I do love the implication that I don't actually have values but instead just hate cars and suburbs...