Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals

Re:Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporat... by murph-almighty on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:11AM (#15139718)

>Washington already won me over [partially] due to not having a state income tax and yet having infrastructure comparable to my previous high-tax state, although Seattle is working hard to change that.

Just curious- how does Washington get funding without income tax?

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Re:Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporat... by jdhn on Thursday August 31, 2017 @08:19AM (#15139752)

I would assume through sales tax & property taxes.

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Re:Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporat... by tclancy on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:44AM (#15140218)

Or here in New Hampshire we do it almost exclusively on property taxes which has an obvious effect: rich towns have better services than poor towns.

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Re:Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporat... by selimthegrim on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:16AM (#15140455)

WA has an extremely complicated business tax on receipts where you have to throw a dart and guess which category your takings fall under.

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Re:Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporat... by nogbit on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:11AM (#15140411)

Very high sales tax and very high propety tax. No worries, governments will always want more money and more time, we will be just like California before long.

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