As I pointed out in Existing North Carolina Megasites, there are 18 empty "megasites" in North Carolina and as was pointed out in The MegaSite Myth, there are 180 empty megasites across the United States that we know of. And those are only those that have been certified as megasites. Others who have not gone through the expensive certification process exist.
As was pointed out in the Op-ed: Megasite plan for Randolph County carries a steep price for taxpayers, megasites are another form of corporate welfare. It's time North Carolina workers heard the truth.
And the truth is: according to today's News & Record editorial: Megasites are a mega-gamble.
"Greensboro could be tapped for water and sewer connections, but servicing the site could require an investment of more than $21 million, according to a 2011 report. How would the city pay for that? Fees alone wouldn’t come close. In regional projects of this kind, local governments may have to explore “potential revenue sharing,” PTP President David M. Powell wrote in the News & Record Ideas section Sunday. That could mean some division of property tax income."
Translation: Higher property taxes so that men like Greensboro Mayor and Commercial Realtor, Robbie Perkins and Developer Roy Carroll, who currently pays 4/5s of the Mayor's commissions, can get a whole lot richer.
"If the Triad isn’t prepared, it will lose to competing regions. There are other megasites that are fully developed and waiting. Southern Business and Development magazine last year identified 10 in the South, including the Mid Atlantic Logistics Center in Brunswick County. "
Translation: We're trying to scare the moron taxpayers into giving us every penny they'll ever earn. After all, the taxpayers are too stupid to know they don't deserve the money anyway. What did they ever build?
There are better ways and if people would like to meet with me face to face to discuss these better ways I'll be more that happy to do so but I'm not going to give away the secrets on the Internet and give another community with brighter leaders the chance to get ahead of us. And I'm also not willing to give Greensboro's status quo the chance to steal it all away from you before you get your part.
As was pointed out in the Op-ed: Megasite plan for Randolph County carries a steep price for taxpayers, megasites are another form of corporate welfare. It's time North Carolina workers heard the truth.
And the truth is: according to today's News & Record editorial: Megasites are a mega-gamble.
"Greensboro could be tapped for water and sewer connections, but servicing the site could require an investment of more than $21 million, according to a 2011 report. How would the city pay for that? Fees alone wouldn’t come close. In regional projects of this kind, local governments may have to explore “potential revenue sharing,” PTP President David M. Powell wrote in the News & Record Ideas section Sunday. That could mean some division of property tax income."
Translation: Higher property taxes so that men like Greensboro Mayor and Commercial Realtor, Robbie Perkins and Developer Roy Carroll, who currently pays 4/5s of the Mayor's commissions, can get a whole lot richer.
"If the Triad isn’t prepared, it will lose to competing regions. There are other megasites that are fully developed and waiting. Southern Business and Development magazine last year identified 10 in the South, including the Mid Atlantic Logistics Center in Brunswick County. "
Translation: We're trying to scare the moron taxpayers into giving us every penny they'll ever earn. After all, the taxpayers are too stupid to know they don't deserve the money anyway. What did they ever build?
There are better ways and if people would like to meet with me face to face to discuss these better ways I'll be more that happy to do so but I'm not going to give away the secrets on the Internet and give another community with brighter leaders the chance to get ahead of us. And I'm also not willing to give Greensboro's status quo the chance to steal it all away from you before you get your part.
