Taxes for us, but not for them

Someone ,maybe me if I find the time, should initiate a public records request on tax abatements that various government agencies have granted over the years and calculate the tax burden that has therefore shifted to us.

In my memory, which may not be perfect, I remember the following.

Rocky Boots getting a Tax Abatement for promising production to remain local, and instead we got warehousing and an outdoor store and production went overseas.

TS Trim car trim manufacturer out by the UPS store. I forget the details but the organization changed it's structure or something.

The Lostro building. LoL

Menards 10 year 50% according to another reddit thread.

Athens Mold and Machine (search result, article paywalled, not sure if it was granted)

**note**

Once I started poking around and learning about the various tax abatements, tax loopholes, enterprise zones, opportunity zones, grape production tax credits, grape production land purchase tax credit, etc etc etc.. I realized that our whole government from top to bottom has been captured by lobbies and industry and I started shopping for land in another country.

Posted Aug 5, 2026, 1:23 PM UTC

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