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Recycling Old Factories

Jeff Smith: What the Left Must Do: Share the Surplus

In the 1980s when Ling Temco Voight, Inc. closed steel mills in the region, Pittsburgh lost its factory. In nearby Aliquippa, which still taxes land 16 times higher than buildings, former employees bought one mill at a price discounted by the underlying land’s tax liability and re-opened it. Other investors built a new mill there, keeping the local economy alive. Read the whole article

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