After SPIN! Video: Should NC put an end to Economic Incentives?
Published January 25, 2018
After Spin! Question to Howard Lee and Joe Mavretic – North Carolina lost out to Alabama as the new site for a Toyota-Mazda manufacturing plant. We are 0 for 25 with automakers. Now there is concern we might not win the competition for Amazon’s second headquarters. We’ve got some interesting bi-plays taking place as both Republican and Democrats vehemently say they are opposed to bribing companies to come here but all the while authorizing more and more economic incentives. Can we get off the incentive merry-go-round and if so how might it impact our state’s economy?
January 25, 2018 at 2:06 pm
Cornelia Cree says:
Our high school grads are not up to snuff in the areas where we have jobs available, and they can't pass the drug test. Government education has done what governments always do- create an underclass of dependency and inability to change to meet demand.
January 25, 2018 at 8:26 pm
Norm Kelly says:
Seems politicians always whine about leadership, and wanting to be leaders.
When 1 state stops bribing businesses to move/expand here, the rest of them will follow the leader.
Does our state have someone, anyone, who is willing to be a leader? Please, don't look to Roy to be a leader. It's not just that politicians like playing God with which business they want to encourage or otherwise bribe. It's that demoncrats are hypocrites, demoncrats are power hungry, demoncrats are more inclined to play God because of their inherent superiority complex. Demoncrats just know which businesses are good, which will survive, and which should be supported by socialist pols.
But leadership says that we should be the first to step forward and stop this insanity. How many hundreds of millions of dollars does it take before the bribe doesn't make sense? And when you or I try to bribe someone, some business, any individual or group, it's the same government that will prosecute us. Just because it's illegal for us to bribe, doesn't mean it's illegal, wrong, or immoral for government to do the bribing. Most pols would probably tell you that it's GOOD for government to be in the bribing business, because THEY KNOW how to do it right! They are smarter than the rest of us. (doubt me? listen to pols talk about how they do things and you too will quickly come to the conclusion that they believe themselves to be superior in every way. the only other way to portray most pols with attitude is to say that they think the rest of us are too stoopid to understand them! isn't it great knowing that your elected official believes you are stoopid?! remember when people in obummer's administration actually said the average American was stoopid, and most citizens didn't believe it! perhaps pols are right: too many stoopid people voting!)
