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There’s nothing like a tax break for a luxury brand to help fill the opinion pages of your local newspaper. But while the city’s plans to provide an incentive for a Porsche dealership in Vanier make for easy headlines, tweets and petitions, we’ve been debating the wrong issue.
Let’s start by dispensing with the idea that a high-end car dealership should be placed in a different category from any other business. All legal businesses should be equal in the eyes of government, and there’s no good or bad money in tax policy. So if the city decides to create incentives to stimulate development in a particular area, it can’t turn a company down because some people don’t like the brand or the net worth of its customers.
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