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Sure, in Loudon County, which has the highest concentration of data centers in the world, has seen its property tax rate fall about 40% since 2010. This is due to data centers representing about half the tax base now.

Key difference with this and TFA though: Loudon has never offered a tax abatement

There's one example. I'm not saying on the whole they're positive.

Completely agree I love the incentives this tax creates, even though it isn't the most progressive tax in the world.

City planning seems to be a particularly inflexible issue on this forum, possibly because the majority of this board are upper-middle income, urban, childless, 20-30s males.

Most in the thread seem to miss the fact that flat congestion pricing (even with the 50% reduction for those making <50K), is regressive, like a carbon tax. It's made progressive by allocating the revenues to transit upgrades, which would outsizely benefit lower income communities. But as you say, the redistributions aren't liquid, so progressive feels like a slight stretch.

Here in Canada, the carbon tax is regressive (carbon consumption is not graded as steeply as income is). However, the canada carbon rebate redistributes all revenues flatly, and makes this scheme truly progressive. Though some debate can be had about liquidity diffs of tax-at-use and rebate at end-of-year.

It is okay to admit a scheme is not progressive, and still support it!

I find this interesting as well, so I think it's unfortunate you are downvoted. In a similar vein, the ultrapatriotic type that loved the USA being #1, having influence everywhere, also seem to be cheering on the dismantling of the soft (and some hard) power structures. But I get the feeling there's some granularity we are both missing, and the group saying those things then and these things now (pro/anti Trump reactionaries), isn't as big as we think.

To add some context from the other side:

- "Additionally, polling firm PUBLiCUS Asia reported in Duterte's last month in office that Duterte received a 75% approval for his entire six-year tenure, making him the most popular post-EDSA president"

- The murder rate halved under his administration: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/PHL/phi...

I am completely against killing people without due process, as he did, and bragged about. But it does seem that most people in the Philippines were happy with his policies, and his policies do appear to be "effective" wrt murder, though are extrajudicial killings by police any better? I don't think so

therapeutic use exemption for salbutamol. same reason the entire norwegian winter olympic team "has asthma". or why the a ton of russian athletes "had ischemia" and needed meldonium. or why many gymnasts "have ADHD"

all your favorite athletes are cheating, especially from rich countries :)