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The Tesla Tube Snake Boogie

"I got a girl, she lives on the hill.
She won't do it but her sister will."

California couldn't/wouldn't boogie with Tesla's ridiculous demands for a battery plant, so Nevada jumped in and sealed the deal by offering 1.3 BILLION dollars in tax incentives.

The new era of Corpocracy: States have to pay for their jobs now.

Corporations are considered people these days, only these people don't have to pay taxes. For decades. Corporate welfare is a scam to be celebrated by grinning governors & CEOs at press conferences. Nevada (pronounced Nevapaytaxes) is the home of the sweet deal as Mining & Gaming corps have always enjoyed lax taxation, but this new Tesla giveaway is unprecedented.

So let me get this straight, regular Nevada folk (a euphemism as there's nothing regular about them, myself included) have to pay property taxes & sales taxes, just not corps who extort states and make them beg & bid for their services like 5 star college football recruits?

Sandoval smiles in public like he nailed the prima donna prom queen, but behind closed doors Elon Musk had him practicing his Deliverance pig squeal. And now the Nevada Republicans are squealing in delight. Though the shrill utterances of swine are still squeals no matter how they spin it. For a supposed libertarian, Musk has no problem suckling the tax-incentive teet of Big Gov.

The writing's on the wall: Sandoval understands that Clark County doesn't need Tesla tax revenue because the water supply will be dried up in a decade. Nevada needs a new cottage industry, and Tesla is it. Why funnel unnecessary tax revenue into the state coffers when the southern half will be a dust bowl? The deal has a certain brilliance to it, however malevolent.

On the positive side, at least NV is subsidizing green technology, and NOT another coal mine, or Honda plant (like southern states love to do).

A solution to corporate welfare: Have federal regulations that outlaw tax incentives. Those companies are not doing us any fucking favors. If they want to build a plant and do business in this country, then they should just do it without handouts. And if they want to go overseas, fine, we won't buy their products.

The entire system is screwed. Real welfare queens are the corporations taking money out of the communities they pretend to help. Creating jobs is fine, but the people shouldn't have to pay for them.

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