[tomfakes]

I mis-understood who the 'their' was in your comment. I agree with you on this point.

There is an argument that allowing companies these tax breaks brings jobs to your country instead of somewhere else, and this brings prosperity. Certainly Ireland worked this way in the 90s to get their tech scene started. Locally, cities do this too - X year tax breaks to put your factory here instead of there is a common thing.

Is the social contract satisfied by just the generation of good paying jobs where there were none previously?