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In reply to the discussion: Report: Carrier will keep just 850 US jobs, get $700,000 a year in tax breaks [View all]SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)37. 850 jobs
into $700,000 is $823 per job. You don't think between state income and sales tax each of those employees will pay $823 in taxes during the year? Plus, whatever they spend is helping jobs, which means more taxes.
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Report: Carrier will keep just 850 US jobs, get $700,000 a year in tax breaks [View all]
deminks
Nov 2016
OP
The ##Trumpeffect was to give away tax $. Not much of a DEAL for IN citizens!
riversedge
Nov 2016
#1
It sounds like they are keeping all the white collar executive jobs here that they were going to
TeamPooka
Nov 2016
#16
yup, it was a lie that was propogated by the MSM of course. 2100 jobs were slated to go
still_one
Nov 2016
#6
How fucking stupid is the media. This isn't news. Governors do this stuff all the time.
RAFisher
Nov 2016
#8
Pretty much all companies the size of United Technologies do significant amounts of government work
VMA131Marine
Nov 2016
#20
Not necessarily. Some states let corporations keep their employees' state taxes.
subterranean
Dec 2016
#30
More and More info that comes out shows how bad this "deal" was for America.
rockfordfile
Dec 2016
#27