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I'm referring to the tacit social contract between the state and its citizens, in this case, the idea that the state supports the entrepreneur in the beginning, so that later the entrepreneur can support the state, if they can.

I'm probably butchering the term, so: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract

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I mis-understood who the 'their' was in your comment. I agree with you on this point.

There is an argument that allowing companies these tax breaks brings jobs to your country instead of somewhere else, and this brings prosperity. Certainly Ireland worked this way in the 90s to get their tech scene started. Locally, cities do this too - X year tax breaks to put your factory here instead of there is a common thing.

Is the social contract satisfied by just the generation of good paying jobs where there were none previously?

So how did the European states affected by this support Google, the entrepreneur, in the beginning?

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