Let me educate a real dummy. By catering to Big Business and giving them the RTW gift, perhaps there will be a rise in relatively low-paying jobs that aren't really middle class. The "gravy" all goes to the businesses who locate there. They either get the land for nothing or very little, and then the taxpayer pays for the infrastructure that will serve the plant...off-ramps, transit lines, etc. By the time the plant finally opens, each of the jobs created actually cost taxpayers a bundle.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that they get free/near-free land as a general rule (I have a good idea, though). As for the infrastructure, yes, it is paid for by taxpayers in those instances. And it all the other instances. That's typically who pays for the infrastructure that accompanies growth, which most people with functioning brains see as a good thing.
I live quite close to a huge manufacturer that employs over 150,000 people locally, and they've been in existence since the early 1900's. They still get huge tax breaks, and don't have to pay anything but a small portion of the environmental damage they have caused, which has cost billions to clean-up and is still ongoing. The Federal Government is picking up the tab because this ultra-profitable company threatens to relocate to the Mid-South if they don't get their way.
Whenever they introduce a new product line, they blackmail the state government into new perks lest they relocate that product line elsewhere. State politicians inevitably cave and the company gets it's way.
So what you're telling me is that it makes A LOT of sense to keep that employer in the area and that it pays to keep that employer in the area.
But if you ever tire of throwing them a nickel here or there to keep them as a major economic force in your area, feel free to send them down this way. You can keep the 150,000 unemployed folks.
But, overall, union workers produce a better product and have higher levels of productivity than their non-union counterparts.
Of course they do (snicker)!
Just ask anyone in the construction trade "who gets the job done right---the first time", and they will say "union workers". I have a friend who is a project manager for a major construction company that builds universities, hospitals, schools etc. They only use union labor, because they have learned the hard way that having to re-work a project is far more costly than doing it right the first time.
Oddly enough, there are virtually no union construction folks in this area and our structures are just fine. Granted, I don't conveniently have a friend who is a project manager for a major construction company, but, well, I lost faith in imaginary friends when I was 8.
Republicans and Libertarians are always crowing about "freedom", "self-reliance", and "exceptonalism", and then they support policies like RTW, which create mediocrity and jobs that go nowhere. Sure, maybe Billy Bob will get his AA from the local JC and become a foreman, but probably not. He'll work there for 30 years and then retire with his puny annuity...back to the single-wide from which he came.
Again, RTW does not make organizing any more difficult. It means that a person can't be fired from his job because he doesn't want to join the union.
The GOP is nothing but a front for Big Business, a clearing house for putting Republican policies into action. Snyder, Scott, Walker, and the rest are nothing but operatives for Big Business, who put them into office and will take care of them when they leave. That isn't the way our government is supposed to operate, is it? Is that freedom? No. it isn't. It's a corporatocracy, which you dummies interpret as "freedom" and representative democracy. The only thing really getting represented is business, not the people.
You're too dumb to see it.
Of course, your idea of freedom is more along the lines of micromanagement of just about every other company to the extent that they are nothing but benefits dispensers. But hey, if I had your brain, I'd probably see that as my only hope, too.
