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This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.

Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.

Current topics this includes but is not limited to:

Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.

Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.

But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.

But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.

But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.

But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.

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Louisiana Governor's EO gets rid of job creation requirement for corporations receiving 80% tax abatement (natlawreview.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/61309889

ITEP provides an 80% tax abatement for up to 10 years. This is supposed to be in exchange for job creation and economic investment in Louisiana. Except Landry removed the requirement for job creation back in Feb.

As Landry explains, "It is not about job creation. It is about capital investment."

To sweeten corporate welfare as an incentive to business, Landry is now giving businesses with existing ITEP contracts the ability to "opt-out" of previous requirements binding them in their current contracts.

So come to Louisiana, exploit whatever you need, benefit from corporate welfare and now you don't even have to create jobs to do it.

The Louisiana Comeback campaign created by GNO Inc. and the Pelican Institute, has been pushing this idea that Louisiana must be freed from over dependency on Federal aid for several years.

They want to incentivise big businesses to come to Louisiana by allowing them to take advantage of ITEP, and claim this will allow Louisiana to be less dependent on Federal aid. However, if there are no jobs being created, and no state taxes going towards state level benefits how would that possibly benefit any Louisiana resident and actually make them less dependent?

It doesn't offer any incentive to Louisiana residents to make them less dependent, it just makes wealthy individuals more wealthy.

Also, I've mentioned this before, but will keep mentioning it every time I come across more of this corrupt BS screwing over the state and telling us we should be happy about it:

The Pelican Institute is part of a nationwide network of think tanks (SPN). SPN is a Heritage Foundation affiliate and receives funding from some very wealthy individuals.

SPN is known for using these think tanks to push for state level policy that benefits their wealthy donors, and disguising the policy as representative of residents living in the state.

As in, these giant corporations are coming to Louisiana, not paying taxes, and not creating jobs because, we the people somehow believe it's in our best interest.

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