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Proud Liberal Dem

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5. I believe in offering some carrots
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 09:04 AM
Jan 2012

for companies to come back here. I don't know how far I would go to penalize companies though IMHO we just shouldnt subsidize companies as much as we seem to be doing right now either and there should be penalties when companies get subsidies for setting up shop in a particular area and failing to deliver a certain number of jobs and/or suddenly decide to pack up and head across the border. If they do stuff like that, they should have to repay some or all of those subsidies that they got for showing up and then perhaps that money could be used to help the newly unemployed workers transition to new jobs. Just some thoughts.

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