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> Taxes are calculated individually and are independent of one another. They are not independent. Total tax revenue is the key metric and it is sum of the individual components. If that value is not large enough taxes go up or services go down or both. So if the data center is not paying property taxes but is using services like road building and maintenance, police protection, fire department, water and sewage infra…
>taxes go up or services go down or both Or fraud goes down. Or useless wastes of money is no longer tolerated. Or the government is made more profitable. It is definitely possible to do more with less. Anyways you are trying to distract from the point as what you are arguing is not what this conversation is about I think. Unless you think all of those services will require raising their prices by billions of dollars…
Re: Is Kentucky about to give billions in tax breaks to data centers?
#21These kinds of tax breaks are a form of legalized fraud, imho. These tech companies absolutely have profit margins enough to pay taxes in full. Reducing their taxes while all the other business and property owners have to pay the full rate is unjustifiable.