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Whats [additionally] infuriating for me is all of this is funded by my tax bill. Both Hyundai taking massive federal incentives, and the subsequent arrests.

I just think of the money wasn't collected/handed out to them in the first place we wouldn't be in this situation.

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Yeah if only we didn’t have taxes, surely we would all be driving our Cybertruck 2s on beautiful, well-maintained privately owned roads by now.

There are real benefits to power staying with the people and not faceless ( or in this case, as it were, facefull ) government. I get that people discuss this in extremes, but surely there is some middle ground between NJ level craziness and, say, taxless utopia.

you fail to understand basic economics. states AND countries provide tax breaks to lure in businesses with certain agreements. In the long term, this provides jobs, training, benefits local economy, income taxes, raises property values, increases property taxes, etc.

And your tax contribution to would be %.0001. There are MANY things about the government to be infuriated at but this isn't one of them.

I fully understand basic economics. Thank you.

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