The Star on tax breaks for companies--the corporate blackmail

From an editorial in The Star today: The Star’s editorial | AMC tax-break deal is more fiscal folly "Even in the often bizarro world of corporate welfare, the new deal involving AMC Entertainment stands out as a financially irresponsible use of taxpayer funds." Understand, it's not about them agreeing with me at all. What it is about is more and more of us out here being aware of this so that one day--hopefully soon--we all say "enough!" and stop this robbing city's, counties and state's tax coffers of money we shouldn't be giving away, all in hopes that some firm will relocate to this or that town, city, county or state. It's crazy. We're giving away the farm. More to the point, we're sacrificing funding for our children's schools and so, their futures. It's insanity, irresponsible and totally unnecessary. This could be something a contingent of local mayors could all get together and commit to, for all their own benefit. Read the rest of the article here: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/09/16/3147436/the-stars-editorial-amc-tax-break.html