[134111] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (JC Dill)
Fri Dec 24 04:46:33 2010
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 01:46:26 -0800
From: JC Dill <jcdill.lists@gmail.com>
CC: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D14665B.3040204@gmail.com>
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On 24/12/10 1:22 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote:
>
> In an unrelated Michigan case, where a large business signed a written
> contract (to expand) in exchange for tax abatement (but didn't expand),
> the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that the contract was mere "fluff and
> hyperbole" required to obtain tax breaks and government favors.
Moral of the story, municipalities need to write the contract so that
they get their tax abatement only AFTER they have completed the
agreed-upon expansion. No tax abatement now, promised expansion later
"fluff and hyperbole".
But even better, they need to stop writing monopoly contracts. It was a
good idea 100/40 years ago, to get the first company to put in the first
telephone/cable network. It is no longer working to serve citizen needs
to keep giving monopoly contracts.
jc
