Talk:David Cay Johnston

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[edit] We need better disambiguation.

• David_Kay
• David_Christopher_Kelly

• < http://prairieweather.typepad.com/the_scribe/2008/01/free-lunch-davi.html >;
• < http://prairieweather.typepad.com/big_blue_stem/2008/01/did-you-know-yo.html >

{David_Cay_Johnston}:

In a small town in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, a fellow named Jim Weaknecht ran a little fin, feather, and fur outfitting club. He sold hunting bows and fishing tackle and things like that. One day a big company named Cabela's came to town. This little town – 4,100 people – agreed to give Cabela’s $36 million to build the world’s largest outdoor goods store. That’s over $8,000 for every man, woman and child in Hamburg, more than the entire city budget for everything -- police patrols, road repair – for more than a decade. Jim Weaknecht charged lower prices. He was run out of business. While he thinks he might have been run out of business anyway, he also says that this isn’t fair. This is not business. This is the government helping the politically connected. I think most people walking into a WalMart, Cabela’s, … {and} a lot of other stores {-} have absolutely no idea that the sales tax money is going to the owners of the store.

• tax_increment_financing
• extortion
• Democracy Now!
• worldlink

[[ hopiakuta Please do sign your signature on your message. ~~ Thank You. -]] 17:30, 18 January 2008 (UTC)