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If Washington D.C. is getting a near infinite amount of money to buy goods and services then businesses will relocate there. If businesses are being subsidized by tax dollars from other parts of the country, then those businesses will have a competitive-advantage. If wages are being subsidized then the best and brightest will gravitate there.
In order for your argument to make sense, all Tulsa would need to do is enact the same policies as Washington D.C. and all those corporations would relocate there. But you know that isn't how it works.
Washington D.C. is only in such a position because it is the US capital and is flooded with tax dollars, lobbyist dollars, etc.
You could argue that government contracted work attracts an educated workforce that helps bolster jobs in other industries.
But the DC area also has the best schools even outside of the District of Columbia. Yes the feds help fund the city itself, but not the outlying suburbs. Montgomery County I think has the best public school district in the country.
I don't think just anywhere could apply these policies, you need the federal government, which was kind of my point.
No, I am fine where I am. This is not about me. The question is why are the most profitable private companies in love with DC while they spurn free-market utopias elsewhere?
Who said corporations want free markets? Corporations want protections and subsidies.
Tech companies are moving to the DC area, NOT Texas or Arizona.
You have zero -zilch- credibility here in part due to your ridiculous fallacious statements such as this. You speak from a dark murky corner where truth is non-existent. Your claims can be easily body slammed into the ground, and consistently are, yet you persist in peddling this utter crapola of yours. Bless your heart.
You could argue that government contracted work attracts an educated workforce that helps bolster jobs in other industries.
But the DC area also has the best schools even outside of the District of Columbia. Yes the feds help fund the city itself, but not the outlying suburbs.(1) Montgomery County I think has the best public school district in the country.
I don't think just anywhere could apply these policies, (2)you need the federal government, which was kind of my point.
You could argue that government contracted work attracts an educated workforce.
If government wasn't paying people, no one would move there. The more they pay, the more will come.
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But the DC area also has the best schools even outside of the District of Columbia. Yes the feds help fund the city itself, but not the outlying suburbs. Montgomery County I think has the best public school district in the country.
Washington D.C. has some of the worst schools in the entire country.
And the suburbs are full of people who work in Washington D.C.
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Originally Posted by Winterfall8324
I don't think just anywhere could apply these policies, you need the federal government, which was kind of my point.
Every dollar spent in Washington D.C. was taken from somewhere else. Thus the development of Washington D.C. comes at the loss of development somewhere else. If Washington D.C. could raise taxes high enough, they could destroy business everywhere except Washington D.C.
Oh come on, the silver line is great news. It is a beautiful metro-station (elevated) that allows non-car people to walk to the mall. McClean is becoming more walkable thanks to billions in new investment.
Nothing "walkable" about a six-lane road running down the middle of Tyson's Corner AND being on a 9%+ incline.
You have zero -zilch- credibility here in part due to your ridiculous fallacious statements such as this. You speak from a dark murky corner where truth is non-existent. Your claims can be easily body slammed into the ground, and consistently are, yet you persist in peddling this utter crapola of yours. Bless your heart.
It should be pointed out that those "dark murky corner" the OP speaks from, includes being an Iranian who hates Israel and is self described communist.
And the suburbs are full of people who work in Washington D.C.
Every dollar spent in Washington D.C. was taken from somewhere else. Thus the development of Washington D.C. comes at the loss of development somewhere else. If Washington D.C. could raise taxes high enough, they could destroy business everywhere except Washington D.C.
Ancient Rome was built with wealth stolen from other parts of the empire in the form of taxes.
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