These companies who first developed their production facilities on the Mexican side of the river then developed distribution facilities on the El Paso side. In some cases these companies developed capital intensive production facilities that fed the Mexican side, here in El Paso. We have great people in El Paso and Juarez, great weather and lots of other great things about our communities, but these companies are here only because of the production cost advantage and the distribution advantage that El Paso and Juarez offer. It seems as though the mayor and the candidates have had only one tool to work with. But local politicians have over-used this tax break, so that you and I have to make up the shortfall in our taxes.
Someone still has to pay.
A good case in point was a couple of years ago when the French TV manufacturer, Thompson, was looking at the City of El Paso and the area outside of the City of El Paso, in the City of Socorro. The City of Socorro offered a better tax package than the City of El Paso. So Socorro got the new distribution facility. But then, the County of El Paso gave the French firm a tax break. Now the politicians have taken the tax break a step further.