{"id":84,"date":"2004-10-22T19:57:42","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T00:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log2\/?p=84"},"modified":"2004-10-22T19:57:42","modified_gmt":"2004-10-23T00:57:42","slug":"czech-or-slovakia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/2004\/10\/czech-or-slovakia\/","title":{"rendered":"Czech or Slovakia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <i>Prague Post<\/i>: <a title=\"The Prague Post Online\" href=\"http:\/\/www.praguepost.com\/P03\/2004\/Art\/1021\/news1.php\">Czech or Slovakia<\/a> &#8220;Low taxes and a cheap, available labor force are making Slovakia more attractive to foreign investment.&#8221;  It sounds like Slovakia is (with good reason) eager to take advantage of those factors to try to attract more business.  I worry, though, about designing a tax system around attracting business.  American cities and states have often taken that path with good intensions without analyzing the true costs&#8211;for instance, the negative cost of giving a tax break to a company in order to attract it to the area.  The taxes lost in the deal often outweigh the job gains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Prague Post: Czech or Slovakia &#8220;Low taxes and a cheap, available labor force are making Slovakia more attractive to foreign investment.&#8221; It sounds like Slovakia is (with good reason) eager to take advantage of those factors to try to attract more business. I worry, though, about designing a tax system around attracting business. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/2004\/10\/czech-or-slovakia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Czech or Slovakia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/czechprimer.org\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}