... This is the totally standard mode of anything substantial bring built in the US, for my entire lifetime.

Just go look at how much corpo cocksucking goes on in the recent history, anytime any corpo wants to open a new large branch or is thinking about relocating their head quarters.

The states just line up and beg to be fucked.

Or, even just like... a mall, a big box store, local governments do the same shit.

Corporations are absurdly subsidized by the government, in so many ways it may actually drive you insane if you try to look into the totality of it.

Everything is a handout to corpos.

This is why we are all poor and miserable now, capitalists captured the government.

Privatize gains, socialize losses.

It doesn't matter at all how many studies have been done that show that this level of government accommodation just destroys the longterm basis of the local economy, causes so many insanely negative externalities.

'I got the thing built here so I created jobs, vote for me, dumbass!'