For you WWII buffs;

[gsvol]

When I think of WWII, I think of the 1957 movie; "The Sun Also Rises", (Tai yang zhao chang sheng qi), adapted from a Hemingway novel.

A young Japanese student at UCLA is summoned home by his businessman father just before the outbreak of the war and the son is furious about being tricked, he would much rather have spent the war in America and is absolutely opposed to the war in the first place.

He goes into a long, educated list of reasons the war should not have been.

His dad replies to him; "Son, that is not what the war is about, the war is about who will be the master and who will be the slave."

I know most people are happy about the two new German chemical plants at Clarkesville and Cleveland but a study done many years ago by Rocky Mountain Institute indicates that in most cases importing large manufacturing units to an area end up as a net loss to the local community.

The major profits are siphoned off.
More schools, sewers, water works etc must be paid for by local government.
Tax breaks are usually granted to the corp in order to compete with other areas desiring the plant.
Local property taxes and land prices increase.
Etc., there are many more things to consider.

 

[jwells]

'Siphoned off' profits are still better than the 0 profit there before
Schools are rarely built by any city, anywhere. Sewer and water access were probably already there...and if you have to build it for new houses, those are new houses in your tax base.
So what about tax breaks, again, it's more than you had.
Property tax/land price increase isn't going to happen always, but if it does, wouldn't it mean more money for city works?

business is better than no business, especially now. Any time you can get more jobs in a community, take it.

 

[gsvol]

'Siphoned off' profits are still better than the 0 profit there before
Schools are rarely built by any city, anywhere. Sewer and water access were probably already there...and if you have to build it for new houses, those are new houses in your tax base.
So what about tax breaks, again, it's more than you had.
Property tax/land price increase isn't going to happen always, but if it does, wouldn't it mean more money for city works?

business is better than no business, especially now. Any time you can get more jobs in a community, take it.

It is wise to consider alternative plans beforehand.

Then consider twenty years down the road.

And then when you have only one major source of income, if they shut down you become a ghost town.

I'm not saying I oppose, I'm just saying that very good studies done thirty years ago show that bringing in those huge corporations very likely will show the community a net loss in the long run.