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Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by armenarmen on Monday January 21, 2019 @03:08PM (#18963183)
> Cities competing for businesses is a net loss to the tax payer.

Sure, if the taxpayer exists as an abstract concept. Not when the Taxpayer is a sandwich seller near the new company’s office. Or when the Taxpayer is given a new job at the company. Or when the Taxpayer is the family that can now rent out its mother in-law unit more easily

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Re:Cleaning New York's harbor with one billion oysters by chii on Monday January 21, 2019 @04:49PM (#18963933)
> Not when the Taxpayer is a sandwich seller near the new company’s office. Or when the Taxpayer is given a new job at the company.

these are not tax payers - these a private individuals.

Why should the sandwich seller from the bronx not be able to benefit from the city's policies, where as the sandwich seller from jersey does under these policies?

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