So here are items #2 & #3 for creating more jobs in Delaware. (Get thee to your fainting couch teabaz.)
2) Huge investments in quality of life and education. “Green economy” or “high tech” entrepreneurs will take our tax breaks, but they will not move here from Madison Wisconsin, Austin Texas, Palo Alto California, Burlington Vermont, Seattle Washington, or Boulder Colorado to take them. Why? Because those places are nice places to live and raise families, while Delaware is a shit hole (relatively speaking). Smart creative people want to be around other smart creative people. New business is collaborative business. We can’t compete with great places to live for top talent on a “we have lower taxes” basis. We can only compete with Rankass Alabama and Bungstain Mississippi for the biggest shithole/most slot machines/lowest taxes crown.
Sorry teabagz. We’ll need to spend money to make money. I know it is your wet dream to have a zero tax utopia where everyone pushes his produce cart to market on muddy rutted tracks, but that will not do. Think of Dave Burris and how he is always promoting the benefits of tax dollars spent on Beach re-nourishment. For every $1 million spent on beaches – it returns $1 billion to our economy (or some such crazy ROI.) Similarly, investments our communities that are not touched by the Atlantic Ocean, can go a long way to making us more competitive with the places we actually want to compete with.
Schools? Yes. Open the checkbooks. We need to be at the top of the list on per pupil spending and professionalization of teacher’s salaries – not the bottom. Also, no creationism in science class unless it is a lesson about what how a stupid bunch of dumbfucks don’t understand the point of science. Transportation? Yes. Do you think “car only transportation policies and massive traffic jams” when you think Burlington, Seattle, and Austin? No, you don’t. We need light rail and bike lanes. Not six lane intersections that are more difficult to cross on foot than the North Korean border.
3) Raise taxes. Specifically, raise taxes on Charlie Copeland. Tax Charlie and his Greenville buddies who do nothing but live parasitically off the labor of their forefathers. Wake those lazy bastards up. Put 30% of their dividend haul into play. (As it had been until Bush fucked everything up). Tax the shit out of dividends and Charlie’s lazy ass unearned income. And speaking of free rides, Disney and all of you other “Delaware Corporations” who enjoy our servile court system, and tax laws with loopholes that you can drive 18 wheelers full of cash through… pay up.
Items #1 and #2 involve work and require investments no more free ride Charlie.
See part 3 of this post for the bonus round stuff.