Preserving The American Political Philosophy

  One World Trade Center  Numana S  Unsplash Disclosure: The opinion and analysis presented here are by a layperson, based on an independent study of Maine economic development statutes. Amazon Strikes America! In 2018, Amazon was looking for a location for new headquarters. In an article by Wharton University, Management, it is speculated that Amazon knew all along where their new headquarters would be located, but as a long-term side effect, the contest produced a comprehensive map of corporate welfare opportunities in the USA, available to global corporations everywhere! .. Amazon received 238 proposals by the October 19 deadline from big cities like Boston, Chicago and Atlanta; smaller hip cities like Austin and Portland; gritty, nouveau-hip sites like Detroit and pre-hip Camden, N.J. (where the slogan is “Experience the Rebirth!”): regional bids like ones from Central Indiana or a three-city package in Missouri; and Northeast hopefuls betting on proximity to the cor...

  The Pine Tree Zones will be considered for renewal at the end of 2021 but nobodies talking about it! Houcine Ncib Unsplash The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets. J ames Madison Federalist Paper #10 In 2004 the Pine Tree Zone tax exemptions were enacted in Maine as a program to benefit low-income high unemployed areas. In 2009 the Pine Tree Zone tax exemptions were amended to become state-wide tax exemptions for targeted areas, no longer restricted to low-income high unemployment areas. In 2017 the Pine Tree Zone was scheduled to sunset, but they were extended for another three years until December of 2021. At the end of this year, ...