I don't know that I'd call that fascism so much as using incentives to bring in more revenue. SpaceX itself may not pay much, if anything in property taxes, but they will be a significant employer (up to 10,000 jobs), which will help provide revenue that way. And once SpaceX is there, Louisiana could eventually change course to a higher tax structure while still being lower than any other state.
Louisiana Economic Development, a state agency, says the facility will
include five launch complexes and housing for employees and their families. In the video, Musk says the site will bring around 10,000 jobs to Louisiana.
In every endeavor there are upsides and downsides. LA sees more upside to this than downside. The job of a state government and its federal representatives is to improve the state. It looks like they've done that here. At the same time it takes jobs away from California and provides an example of how it is viable to bail out of high tax states.
In addition:
The announcement event wasn't the only exclusive part of the deal, which the state says brings $100 billion in investment.
LA is one of the poorest states in the Union. It would be negligent for them not to try and improve their lot.
They can’t bring jobs without laws shielding them from any responsibility for negative externalities? Government is shielding them from all liability and that is good? They just buy their way in and fuck the local population just like mineral or petroleum extraction in a third world country. Just look at all the prosperity king coal brought to Appalachia.
Coal did bring a lot of money to Appalachia for a very long time, but at the expense of too many worker's health. However, safety standards have changed a lot since then. Frankly, I think it's a bad comparison to this situation given the changes in safety standards.
It's not realistic to think that a deal of this size is going to be all-good for everyone all the time. Even given that, the upsides here appear to dwarf the downsides.
And what does "buy their way" in mean? They pay the state money and they get the land and construction permits they want. This is standard practice. From the lowest paid construction and eventual maintenance jobs, to the highest management, the project is going to employ thousand of people over X number of years, and it will provide the benefit of technological advancement, the vital maintenance of space missions, and a lot of other things too numerous to count.
My guess is that if Elon Musk wasn't involved a lot of people would be singing a different tune.
What... the geotechnical conditions of the nearly undeveloped Louisiana Gulf Coast would automatically become viable for constructing launch pads because Musk wasn't involved?
Musk is part of the issue because he gets these wildly ridiculous ideas and thinks they are viable and that he is super special and can transcend reality. In reality, all Musk is really good at is hype, raising capital, and being the worst person on Earth to work with. He got the property for a song because it is awful land, from the surface to miles deep
I don't know that I'd call that fascism so much as using incentives to bring in more revenue. SpaceX itself may not pay much, if anything in property taxes, but they will be a significant employer (up to 10,000 jobs), which will help provide revenue that way. And once SpaceX is there, Louisiana could eventually change course to a higher tax structure while still being lower than any other state.
Louisiana Economic Development, a state agency, says the facility will
include five launch complexes and housing for employees and their families. In the video, Musk says the site will bring around 10,000 jobs to Louisiana.
In every endeavor there are upsides and downsides. LA sees more upside to this than downside. The job of a state government and its federal representatives is to improve the state. It looks like they've done that here. At the same time it takes jobs away from California and provides an example of how it is viable to bail out of high tax states.
In addition:
The announcement event wasn't the only exclusive part of the deal, which the state says brings $100 billion in investment.
LA is one of the poorest states in the Union. It would be negligent for them not to try and improve their lot.
They can’t bring jobs without laws shielding them from any responsibility for negative externalities? Government is shielding them from all liability and that is good? They just buy their way in and fuck the local population just like mineral or petroleum extraction in a third world country. Just look at all the prosperity king coal brought to Appalachia.
Coal did bring a lot of money to Appalachia for a very long time, but at the expense of too many worker's health. However, safety standards have changed a lot since then. Frankly, I think it's a bad comparison to this situation given the changes in safety standards.
It's not realistic to think that a deal of this size is going to be all-good for everyone all the time. Even given that, the upsides here appear to dwarf the downsides.
And what does "buy their way" in mean? They pay the state money and they get the land and construction permits they want. This is standard practice. From the lowest paid construction and eventual maintenance jobs, to the highest management, the project is going to employ thousand of people over X number of years, and it will provide the benefit of technological advancement, the vital maintenance of space missions, and a lot of other things too numerous to count.
My guess is that if Elon Musk wasn't involved a lot of people would be singing a different tune.
What... the geotechnical conditions of the nearly undeveloped Louisiana Gulf Coast would automatically become viable for constructing launch pads because Musk wasn't involved?
Musk is part of the issue because he gets these wildly ridiculous ideas and thinks they are viable and that he is super special and can transcend reality. In reality, all Musk is really good at is hype, raising capital, and being the worst person on Earth to work with. He got the property for a song because it is awful land, from the surface to miles deep.
Okay, so you keep going on about this, but you have no access to the information being used to assess the viability of what SpaceX is proposing to do. You have a single news article on which you're relying to give what you believe is an informed opinion.
A rough but close analogue is the recent news about that lady that killed her three kids. Everyone on the internet seems to think they know the story, but they don't.
I used to practice law and here's a short list of what neither the public or I know:
What the police report(s) said.
What the defendant told the police/detectives, if anything
What the defendant told their attorney because those are confidential conversations
What any and all of the attorneys, paralegals, or even assistants discussed about the matter
Any of the dealings between counsel
Why a negotiated sentence wasn't reached and what the barriers were to that
What happened in each and every hearing leading up to trial
What the trial briefs and the law and arguments contained therein were
What the jury selection rules were
Who was in the jury selection pool that didn't get picked and why
Why the jurors selected were selected
The preparation that went into direct and cross eximination
The actual questions asked during direct and cross examination
Who the expert witnesses were and why they were selected by each side
What the burden of evidence is in each argument/request/analysis
And on and on and on.
The reality is that very, very few know anything about that shit yet feel confident in coming to whatever conclusion they want based on pre-existing beliefs.
You appear to be doing the same thing. You know a couple of general things about the overall deal and nothing more. You don't have access to 99% of the information needed to make an accurate assessment.
So what, SpaceX just showed up and said, "We'll give you $100 billion dollars to do some shit"? And the state of Louisiana said, "Oh okay, do you know what you want to do?" And then SpaceX said, "I dunno, just a bunch of stuff."? Then LA said, "Cool. Whatevs."?
I genuinely can't tell if this is serious or satire.