I agree with some of what you're saying, but it's a mistake to just lump all of the government in as one huge entity. NYC != 'the government'.
|Using that when its convenient and forgetting about it later is just not ethical.
The government is all too happy to remind them, and tell them what is owed. Let's not forget who actually has the monopoly on power / violence in this arrangement. If you think the government shouldn't be offering special treatment, and shouldn't be picking who gets a competitive advantage, I agree, but let's not pretend like the government at any level is somehow at the mercy of any business. The worst the business can do is pack up and go somewhere else. Any government entity can do much much worse to the business.
|Using that when its convenient and forgetting about it later is just not ethical.
The government is all too happy to remind them, and tell them what is owed. Let's not forget who actually has the monopoly on power / violence in this arrangement. If you think the government shouldn't be offering special treatment, and shouldn't be picking who gets a competitive advantage, I agree, but let's not pretend like the government at any level is somehow at the mercy of any business. The worst the business can do is pack up and go somewhere else. Any government entity can do much much worse to the business.