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happyhshoe · 09-11-2003, 09:20 AM

Sycamore,
What has happened in the past is that the city makes large $ concessions to companies like Siemens, who then abandon their obligation, abandon their building, and leave the city holding. Now in the case of Siemens, they also left us toxic waste on their site, which they refused to clean up, and so... I suppose the case could be made that we're unfriendly, but our tax base and per capita income are attractive to businesses onaccounta they can ge away with paying their workers astonishingly low wages.
SO you could look at it from many perspectives.

09-11-2003, 09:20 AM	#5
happyhshoe Sibling of the Commonweal Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Albuquerque, NM, USA Posts: 16	Sycamore, What has happened in the past is that the city makes large $ concessions to companies like Siemens, who then abandon their obligation, abandon their building, and leave the city holding. Now in the case of Siemens, they also left us toxic waste on their site, which they refused to clean up, and so... I suppose the case could be made that we're unfriendly, but our tax base and per capita income are attractive to businesses onaccounta they can ge away with paying their workers astonishingly low wages. SO you could look at it from many perspectives.