Does everything in our society have to be subsidized?
If your friendly neighborhood dildo manufacturer is making enough money to hire employees and expand, are they really entitled to our hard-earned tax dollars to further promote their business? Why, as opposed to the corner bakery, the neighborhood dry cleaner, the friendly nearby dentist, or the corner acupuncturist?
Or we could "subsidize" everyone with generally lower tax rates. There's an idea!
The reality is that successful businesses try to leverage their economic power, and success, into convincing governments to pay them to locate there, costing businesses and individuals with less economic power. It is, definitionally, unfair.
We say everyone ought to pay their fair share of taxes, without one taxpayer subsidizing the other. We know it's a radial concept.
The Enquirer has it here that Governor Kasich finally said "no" to at least one of these subsidies. We say: It's a good start.
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