I live with the results of socialism, in a country ranked as the #1 socialist nation in the world. We just happen to be ostensibly free. I get a pension from the government, and free health care as a retired soldier. I am likely eligible to stop working and receive disability pay, and can start receiving Social Security in just a few months.
All of you get to pay for it. What's not socialist about that?
Agree to disagree, your definition of socialism really could use some clarification, as off topic as it is. Even so - better scholars than I have already stated it, in the larger scheme of ranking governments, the US is socialist. We aren't a representative Republic except in the few mechanisations of our electoral process.
Because of that - businesses DO look in other states to move there. And, as previously mentioned, part of the package is tax abatement, the use of eminent domain to remove the previous owners and force the property into the hands of the new owners to reap higher sales tax revenues. The governments enlist grant writers to find money from Congress to underwrite transfers and new employee training, or, at the old site, retraining for the newly fired workers. Rezoning is expedited to allow that use of the land under property code restrictions, then more money allocated to improve roads and rails, infrastructure, etc. Both the gaining City Council and Chamber of Commerce work the hallways to get the new business every possible economic incentive available.
If the government is handing out my taxpayer dollars to entice a for profit business, and it's NOT socialism, what is it?
