With the Dell location decision imminent, local taxpayer's pants are approaching ankle level. But I am keeping one hand on my belt because we may be able to pull them back up if my view of justice prevails.
Peter Enrich is my new best friend. He is a modern day Don Quixiote who has foregone his lance and started throwing bombs at the windmills of big business. If his lawsuit is successful, economic incentive ransoms demanded of local and state governments in order to seduce corporate expansions and relocations will be a thing of the past throughout the nation. Significantly, this quelling could very well prove to be retroactive and negate the incentives being offered in the current local bidding war for Dell's favor.
Advice to Dell executives: Choose wisely. If Enrich is successful, all of this excessive bending over and grabbing of ankles by our good friends to the west may result only in the public exposure of the unclothed body part and nothing more.
If this comes to pass, what would you be left with? Winston-Salem. I'm telling you guys... choose wisely.
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