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Business raids cost Kansas City millions in taxes | Fox News: "The two states have burned through hundreds of millions of dollars to lure businesses to one side of that stripe or the other in the pursuit of jobs. Yet sometimes, those jobs merely have shifted to different buildings across the border with little real growth for the region's economy."
"You get to a point where you have to say we are wasting taxpayer money"
That takes a long, long, long time for most politicians!
"Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, a Republican, was unapologetic about so freely giving away public revenue that otherwise would go for schools, police and public services."
"Continental Tire moved in 2009 from Charlotte, N.C., to adjoining Lancaster County, S.C., which South Carolina scored as a gain of 300 jobs."
How many employees actually moved to S.C.? Did they really gain any jobs?
"A group of 17 Kansas City area business owners — from both sides of the state line — sent a letter to the governors of Kansas and Missouri decrying the "economic arms race" and urging them to concentrate on attracting businesses from outside the Kansas City area."
A local economic arms race is bad but a regional economic arms race is good?!?!?
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