Corporate Pricks Fuck The Locals Again

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http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/apple-br...t-no-jobs/

Apple breaks new ground in squeezing yokels for huge tax breaks by offering almost no jobs

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds and the mayor of the tiny suburban town of Waukee (population 13,800) Thursday basked in the glory of sharing a podium with Apple CEO Tim Cook. They announced that Apple would build a $1.3 billion data center in the little town.

They should have hung their heads in shame instead. Apple took Waukee to the cleaners, and its taxpayers will pay the bill. The politicians talked as though the data center would put Waukee on the map as a first-class high-tech center. The truth is that it will mark Waukee as a first-class patsy.
To bring the project home, Waukee and the state are giving Apple about $208 million in tax abatements. For that, they're getting a plant that will employ a permanent workforce of 50 people.

Fifty. That works out to $4.16 million per job.

Congratulations, Iowa.  You've got a real fucking genius running the show!