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Large companies and tax breaks go together like peanut butter and chocolate. Google, with it's hefty pockets and incredible expansion capabilities is a coveted prize for any state. North Carolina offered to cut Google a break on its tax bill, to the tune of $89 Million over 30 years, in exchange for a $600 Million dollar data center, employing 200 people. A libertarian group says, not so fast. They've sued to stop the deal, claiming that North Carolina's constitution doesn't allow such deals. There's little hope for the libertarians however, they previously sued to block a similar deal given to Dell, and were rebuffed by the courts.
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Subscribe to commentsJamesJul 27th 2007 4:24PM
What the hell kind of libertarians are suing to make somebody pay *more* taxes?
ChrisJul 27th 2007 11:59PM
They probably don't like these types of deals because they favor a single large company and they would prefer to see across the board tax cuts. By giving special deals like this to large out of state companies they have to charge the rest of the citizens higher taxes.
I read a good economic study that found that these types of special tax deals generally don't work out favorably for the state. As soon as the deal expires (generally after a set time like 5-20 years) the company leaves. It is much more effective for a state to have lower taxes for everyone to encourage in-state entrepreneurship and development. I know that CA doesn't have low taxes (so that's not the reason they started in CA) but which state do you think benefited more, CA having Google start in CA and stay there as their headquarters, or NC hiring away a small section of Google and giving them special tax breaks?