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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: MillCreek on January 13, 2019, 07:21:29 PM
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https://newrepublic.com/article/152836/elwood-illinois-pop-2200-become-vital-hub-americas-consumer-economy-its-hell?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
Being America's warehouse district is not all that it is cracked up to be.
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Globalisims legacy.
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https://newrepublic.com/article/152836/elwood-illinois-pop-2200-become-vital-hub-americas-consumer-economy-its-hell?utm_source=quora&utm_medium=referral
Being America's warehouse district is not all that it is cracked up to be.
Well, it is in Illinois.
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New Republic = Mother Jones Lite.
Was the town's government corrupt, stupid, incompetent, or some combination of the three? Yes.
Is the temp agency shuffle to do robotic jobs sucky? Yes.
Did the article half-heartedly mention that the people ostensibly had no jobs since 1980 before the distribution centers? Kinda.
Any chance the article might give a fair shake to the fact that just one of these mega-logistics and big-box retailers like Wal-Mart save predominantly lower income Americans as much as 50 billion dollars a year in the form of lower prices? Nope.
Is some lefty big-government/socialistic redistribution going to make things better? Of course it won't.
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The people exist for the economy, suck it up buttercups.
The lesson here for others? Infrastructure and livability shouldn’t be ignored if you’re going to sell out your town to the globalists.
Keeping the serfs happy by throwing them occasional crumbs goes a long way.
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I'm missing some pertinent information.
Did the town sign an agreement that they wouldn't tax ANYTHING built there for 20 years? No matter how much got built or how much traffic increases or how much extra infrastructure was necessary?
Because it says they signed an agreement with "Intermodal". And then it talks about ALLLLLL these other companies building warehouses in the town.
This isn't about some poor little town getting overwhelmed by big bad business. If their agreement was completely open ended, this is about poor little town making very stupid decision.
But, it's Illinois. $30M in debt it nothing there- the entire state will be collapsing over unfulfillable promises soon.
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Agreed, sounds like stupid decisions on the town's part. Hell, while no taxes isn't an uncommon part if such deals, 20 years seems a little batshit.
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