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Penalizing a single industry makes no sense. Either increase payroll taxes across the board for every industry, or you are literally saying that tech jobs are "worse" than other jobs and must be punished in order to make up for how they harm the city. Totally ridiculous, populist idiocy.

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Come now. When your politics are fair it means the politician doesn't have any power - and if you don't have any power, how are you supposed to give favors to the people who paid for your campaign to get elected?

OK so what sort of ridiculous idiocy would you call it when tax breaks were doled out just to the tech industry? And how is this not some form of recapture of previous incentives?

No, tax breaks were given to the mid market area not to specific companies, so even the restaurants and gyms get tax breaks in the area

Agreed - seems like more of an effort to get more businesses to move to the downtown corridor, which wasn't doing too well.

I also disagree with targeted tax breaks to specific industries, but at least they entice rather than repel companies. Taxing a specific industry via referendum smacks of pandering for votes.

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