Tax Breaks

Yes, it is unreasonable. It is not one of the three natural functions of government - police, military, courts.

"The state therefore has two natural functions, functions essential to the existence of any peaceful, ordered society: to protect the rights of citizens against violent or fraudulent assault, and to judge in conflicts of right with right. It has a further third function, which is another aspect of the first, that is, to protect its citizens from assault by foreign powers. These three functions are expressed by three powers: the police power, which protects the citizen against domestic violence; the military power, which protects the citizen against violence from abroad; and the courts of law, which judge between rights and rights, as well as sharing with the police power the protection of the citizen against domestic violence.
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But since this institution must possess a monopoly of legal physical force, to give to it in addition any further power is fraught with danger; that monopoly gives to the state so much power that its natural functions should be its maximum functions."

- Frank S. Meyer, In Defense of Freedom: A Conservative Credo, published in 1962

 

NO, the job creation will increase income tax and property tax.

 

I favor State’s rights, so they can structure their tax policy however their citizens will allow.

The states are competing against each other for these businesses. So, sure, give them tax breaks. If the public doesn’t like it, they can vote them our.

The federal tax code is a different animal. I favor flat tax: 15% business and 10% personal: no exemptions, everyone files individually.

peace to you

 

Intriguing. Rather obviously, the foremost natural function of a government is to “feed on its denizens,” that is, tax entities within its domain. Without this function, the others would be moot. As Franklin asserted, "but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes."

 

Since a government is naturally driven by self-preservation (“A large population is a king’s glory, but without subjects a prince is ruined,” Prov 14:28), distributively levying taxes will be a prime factor in that self-preservation.

How it goes about this may be debatable, at least in a “free” society. This particular case may well be a reasonable way to keep the balance or even improve the situation.