Tesla Freebies
The choice in the Tesla deal is not between socking the corporation with higher or lower taxes; the choice is between getting nothing from them if the don't come, or getting all the increased sales tax revenue as their employees spend their money HERE. THAT is a win for everybody.
But conventional thinking always degenerates into the predatory socialist politics of greed, and sees everything only in terms of windfalls, favors or corruption. What's the loot, who gets what, who wins, who loses.
What the conventional thinking never goes to is clear and simple economics, and clear, simple and fair governance. The economy is NOT a zero-sum game, it's not a win-lose. A healthy economy GROWS; it's a win-win. Likewise, tax revenue is not a zero-sum game. Tax revenue grows with the economy.
Government -- federal, state and local -- has only one legitimate function: make the laws fair, equitable and uniform. THAT is the essence of the US Constitution and most State's constitutions that are modeled after it. There is no room for tricks that we see in bill after bill, and in section after section in the NRS, such as making some provision applicable to "any county with population between 700,000 and 1,000,000, or any company that brings in new employment between 6000 and 7000. Come on. Whom are you trying to fool. If you are going to do anything so stupidly transparent, have the guts to say "Washoe" and "Tesla."
Therefore, if the terms of the deal are good for Nevada and good for Tesla, then the same terms are also a good deal for everybody else in the State.