America's big box stores sucked up corporate welfare and killed Main Street -- now they're ducking property tax

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@MadLibrarian

When will municipalities learn that luring big businesses to open a franchise there by offering them everything but the kitchen sink will usually backfire within a few years?

When it backfires, within a few years.

@Perrin_Rynning

Teddy Roosevelt rode his “Trust-buster” reputation all the way to the White House.

In retrospect, it is staggering to think that TR would and could accomplish this. Certainly, the far easier (and lucrative) path would’ve been to continue to assist and further the Trusts in their ventures.