alt Hacker News> There definitely shouldn't be deals to avoid taxes while lying about job creation.
The people making those deals are physiologically incapable of not attempting to benefit from socialized externalities to make obscene levels of private profit.
You might as well be asking them to voluntarily stop breathing or pay a fair amount of taxes, they just can't do it.
The problem is it only takes one stupid municipality for them to get a ridiculous deal and, unfortunately, there are a lot of cities that don't have great representation. These companies probably only have to ask 10 different places for an obviously disastrous deal before one of this says yes. It doesn't take corruption, just odds.