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6. Here in NJ there's an investigation going on
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 10:30 AM
Feb 2019

of chris christie's economic development authority's billions of dollars in handouts to major corporations for sometimes moving across the street to a new location - we're finding out, as most already expected, there was little to no oversight of the terms, jobs weren't created and huge record profit making corporations were raking in millions of public tax dollars for doing virtually nothing.

The very people who rail against Socialism are the very people benefiting for what is obviously a socialist tax redistribution from WE THE TAXPAYERS to the very wealthiest corporations. When did this become standard practice? How is this even legal?

Do you want to know why our infrastructure is crumbling? Why our education system is far below par? Why we don't have universal health care for every American? Why our nation is fast becoming a third world dictatorship?

Taxes. We pay them. We don't have enough to pay for it all. They get tax breaks and incentives. Then they keep them even though they don't abide by any of the conditions required to receive their incentives.

This taxpayer funding of corporations and individuals who pay no taxes while extracting billions from the economy leaving us trillions in debt HAS TO STOP. It should be a felony to offer these incentives. They're just that immoral, anti-social and undemocratic.

https://www.insidernj.com/hearings-begin-tittel-demands-independent-audit-investigation-eda/

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