Re: OT: Sam's Bank and the twisted horse opera (WalMart)

"Dave Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Gould 0738 wrote:
> >
> > >Look, I don't pretend to know ALL of the answers, but it's been a given
> > >that communities benefit when large businesses locate there. Talk to
one
> > >of your local congressmen or board of supervisors and let them explain
> > >exactly why.
> > >
> > >Dave
> >
> > So, how is the free market served when small businesses in a locale are
made to
> > pay (through taxes) to subsidize a huge competitor?
> >
> > I keep hearing the rattlefrom the right that it's all OK because it's
"free
> > market", but nobody will answer my question about how it can be free
market
> > when one business is taxed in order to grant tax relief or public cash
> > incentives to another.
>
>
> If you want to get down to it, it's not "free market", as it's the
> government interfering in it. But the government routinely interfers in
> the free market if they feel that there's a good reason for it. The
> problem is that one man's "good idea" is another man's worst
> nightmare....
>
> Dave

So, if you decide to open a bed & breakfast after you retire, you don't
think it would be unfair if the local government gave a Holiday Inn a tax
incentive, while you had to buy the land and build everything using your
retirement money?