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Doesn't anyone in State Government know how to "use" Google, or are they only able to be "used" by Google? Are the people who negotiate our trade deals in Raleigh asleep at their posts? Does anyone surf the net using Google to figure out if the Google deal is really good for North Carolina?

Why are we giving highly profitable companies massive long-term tax breaks to locate here in the first place? When we do that, we dump the costs of infrastructure improvements on the rest of the county and state who may or many not do well in the deal? And why do we do it in secret so the companies can play one state against the other. If VA was only willing to pay $30 million for Dell, why was it worth another $210 million for us? What did we get for that extra $210 million over and above what Virginia was supposed to get?