Continental’s facility in Fletcher is in the news for expansion, so it’s time for your nother crony capitalism quiz.
- What will the economic development create?
- Jobs.
- That which it destroys elsewhere.
- What will it invest?
- Millions in the community.
- Millions in some disunity.
- Does the amount of the incentives matter to the reporter?
- Yes.
- No. (They do here.)
- What form do the incentives take?
- The article does not say.
- It doesn’t equate in any way to cash.
- If Continental’s exemption from paying any taxes doesn’t shift the tax burden onto the other payers, can we lower the tax rate?
- No.
- No.
- Who made this possible?
- Magic government money with no taxpayer contributions.
- Taxpayers, including the working poor who could have stayed in business but for corporate taxes.
- What adjective is used to describe the emotion of the recipients?
- Excited.
- Excited.
- With so many kids starving in food deserts – reportedly – why does a company that has “seen a 34 percent year-over-year increase in demand for its brake calipers” need welfare?
- What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhinoceros?
- Synergy.