Comments on: Dell opens controversial plant

Lawsuit challenging generous tax breaks didn't stop $100 million North Carolina production facility.
Photo: Dell's new N.C. plant

[thatchman1]

Dell & Taxes

The plant could very easily be in China. If we want jobs, we have to make it attractive for companies to build & stay here. It's only the nature of our capitalist economy's setup to reward companies for making money overseas and leaving it there. Either it's here, or it's not.

Put this facility in Wheeling WV and you won't hear a sound. Maybe NC has too many jobs already...

[wiley14]

Just an assembly plant...

This is just an assembly plant. Most of the parts are already shipped in from China. Dell probably will move overseas in a few years when Michael needs a raise.

Besides, it's not just NC. Why should the government have to give huge tax breaks to large corporations when small businesses are constantly left in the cold? It doesn't make sense.

Nashville was ripped off

Most of Dell's "employees" ended up working for a temp agency and got no benefits. Dell didn't hire nearly as many people as they said they would and ended up having to forfeit some of the tax breaks. They also decided to build another plant 15 miles from the one we gave them and moved several functions to the other location, which isn't even in the same county as Nashville. Don't get me wrong, I have friends who needed jobs and went to work at Dell, but we probably could have gotten them to move here without all the tax breaks and extremely prime real estate we donated adjacent to the airport.