Originally Posted By: Erik
The subsidies are designed to promote business prosperity. When a business prospers the delta between revenues and expenses increases- it's called profit. Any legitimate business (especially one that answers to shareolders) will reinvest at least a portion of those profits thereby creating growth. Growth increases the tax base and employment opportunity. The state benefits financially from both!


Don't really care about your prosperity or profit but good on you as long as you aren't using my money to do it. If you are I'll treat you know different than any other welfare recipient.
Growth has major expenses for the state in infrastructure, education, etc. Growth can lead to negative revenue for a state. If your ideal of growth were true then taxes would decline not increase as a state grows.
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