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A comment on Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals. Parent comment

Re:Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporat... by cabalamat on Thursday August 31, 2017 @09:59AM (#15140322)
> Apple has to pay the property tax equal to the farmland for the next 20 years instead of the much higher tax on the datacenter property. Who cares?

Let's say I have a house or small business. Do I get a property tax abatement? If I don't, Apple shouldn't either. Big corporations should pay their fair share of taxes.

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Re:Iowa's handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporat... by zdkl on Thursday August 31, 2017 @10:05AM (#15140358)
The other side of this debate is that as a small business, if you find a municipality willing to deal with you in terms favourable to your business, you'd be a fool not to work with them.
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