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Which is more than funded by the workers' property taxes, income taxes, and sales tax revenue.

Why should the 'workers' pay higher taxes, and the 'company' pay lower taxes? What makes that a morally just argument?

1) As Nevada has no personal income tax, workers' liability on that portion would be the same as company's - close to zero.

2) Property and local sales taxes are more likely to stay in the community, whereas the corporate taxes would be sent to Carson City and redistributed to who knows what.

3) Municipalities with strong and diverse property tax sources tend to be community-driven and citizen-oriented. Municipalities with single source of income coming from some corporate giant are incentivized to be pushovers for corporate agenda.

Even though those amenities weren't included in the original cost/benefit of the deal because VW sprung them on the City halfway through the process it still might have been covered by increased sales/property tax until it turned out that demand for the Passat had peak the year it opened and they had several rounds of layoffs in the following years.

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