▶ Your Answer : The reading passage contends that incentives that local governments provide many positive outcomes for locals. On the other hand, the lecturer brings up several key issues that contradict this argument. First, the lecturer maintains that the tax revenue will not be increased. To be specific, a study revealed that because of tax rebates, overall tax revenue decrease. Therefore, local governments will gain less tax, and it will not be good enough to help investing projects. This rebuffs the reading passage's claim that incentives will expand the tax revenue. Next, the speaker argues that using incentives will not create many new jobs for local people. When businesses come to new area, existing companies suffer from competition with new businesses. It causes downsize or collapse of existing companies so that there might be job losses to local people. In addition, outside businesses which want to move to new area usually employ current employees. This refutes the reading passage's claim that if locla governments give incentives to atrract business, it will offer lots of new jobs. Finally, the lecturer asserts that it is not beneficial to the local environment. It should be effective when only replacing existing conventional factories. If new businesses come to new area, there must be more pollutants than before, so the local governments' incentives are not effective at all. This contradicts the reading passage's point that offering green incentives to companies is advantageous to the local environment. |