Perry raises a good point here about corporate welfare. The proposed payment in lieu of taxes agreements for the wind industry is problematic if you believe in fairness. Fortunately, our system of taxation is so unfair and punative, the public doesn't bother to attend public hearings on the massive giveaways outlined in this story.
Week after week, I see huge decisions made in local government and no one raises a peep of protest...The reason ? The public is smart and realizes these kind of deals are inside baseball and the people are not going to be paramount.
Taxation in this state continues to be so onerous, the only way something new can get built is to have the rest of us subsidize it through so called economic development. The day is coming when the overtaxed existing businesses and individuals will buckle under the weight of these schemes. Take that to your public hearing.
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Finally, a real issue and a real excuse for a Tea Party.
Aliens coming to our shores, stealing our hard earned taxes in the form of corporate welfare and taking the booty back to Spain to be used for purchasing Villas in the Pyrenees and Yachts in Monaco.
Where are the teabaggers when we discuss the single most important issue to affect the North Country since the War of 1812. Wind development by subsidized foreign developers.
Where are the politicians, for that matter?
Off in corporate land sining secret contracts and protection deals with the wind company, RWiley.
This is first time silly goose Mayor heard about wind. Too busy trying to get on the Glenn Beck show.
Spot on RWiley. The teabagging movement is nothing but bluster. They haven't a clue as to where the real waste in Government is. They still haven't figured out that Hoffman is a multi-millionaire who got rich making sure that others do not get the same breaks as he got.
It doesn't matter how much power we produce the grid is so screwed up and old the power can't make it through, This is why the NYPA bought generators for folks in Lake Placid.
proof that politics and reality dont mix, when the scientific evidence is ignored in favor of a fantasyland idea that wind solves energy problems. WE're off to see the Wizard!!!
With the "Donald" at the Helm of the JCIDA the wind farms in the county will reap rich rewards from the JCIDA similar to the rewards reaped when the Donald was placed at the Helm. Not to mention all the economic help to Brownville Speciality Paper.
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