Yet even with the tax break, Texarkana, Arkansas, still cannot compete with Texas because of the usury law.
German industry cannot compete with Chinese labour on low-end items, it is argued.
He has repeatedly said that wind and solar energies are unreliable and cannot compete with coal unless they are heavily subsidized.
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Ironically, decision makers in the U.S. have failed to appreciate the obvious fact that America cannot compete with China on low-cost manufacturing.
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With their current roster the Mets cannot compete with Philadelphia for the NL East or even for a wild card playoff birth.
They argue that they cannot compete with cheaper imports from Chile and Australia unless they use bulk wines from those same countries.
But experts argue that current mobile technology cannot compete with fast fixed line connections such as fibre optics which offer speeds of up to 100Mbps.
Foreign exchange is desperately scarce, and salaries cannot compete with inflation.
It also cannot compete with the deep pockets of Arab governments.
Management say the factory cannot compete with Israeli and Jordanian businesses, which can extract bromine more cheaply from sea water than can be done on Anglesey.
With few natural resources found locally for example, Sri Lanka has no oil and grows no cotton its textile companies cannot compete with China's or Bangladesh's on price.
Agriculture subsidies by the U.S. and the European Union were a major sticking point in the Doha discussions for developing countries, who say their farmers cannot compete with subsidized goods.
And although they cannot compete with aeroplanes for speed, or with water-borne shipping for volume, they could cover in a few days a distance equivalent to a six-week journey by ship.
He told MPs: "We want to tackle the culture of competitive dumbing-down, by making sure that exam boards cannot compete with each other on the basis of how easy their exams are".
Nuclear power simply cannot compete with gas-fired power.
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But in the Netherlands, Van Raaij believes recent developments mean the smaller clubs simply cannot compete themselves with their wealthier domestic opponents.
Laissez-faire ideology has its merits, but cannot compete successfully with a population weaned on the welfare state, whose members are keenly attuned to their vulnerability in our volatile era.
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Similarly, the best that Southeast Asia can offer in terms of products cannot possibly compete with the high-tech wizardry and sophistication of what comes from the U.S., and it is likely that a hundred years from now the same will be true.
They cannot compete against plants with leaves, but if a piece of land is cleared by, say, a volcanic eruption, they are often the first things to set up shop there.
Helium-cooled superconductors like those found in MRI machines and the LHC cannot, however, compete with ordinary copper wire in more pedestrian applications, like transmission cables, where the advantages of superconductivity do not merit the enormous costs.
Higher rates also makes Brazil extremely attractive to the carry-trade, as investors from low yielding economies will pour into the Brazilian bond market, strengthening the real to the 1.80 level in a flash, and causing mild panic within the Finance Ministry who will argue that Brazil cannot compete in this market with such a strong currency.
Because the online learning community cannot hope to compete successfully on reputation with the established brick and mortar intuitions, it has instead focused its attention on student populations that have historically been underserved (namely, working adults).
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This allows small businesses, which cannot solicit preferential political treatment, to compete with larger corporations.
Employers cannot expect to recruit and retain the top-tier talent that will allow them to compete globally with rock-bottom wages and college grads cannot expect that a four-year liberal arts education will be sufficient (or even necessary) to grant them access to the highly-paid careers of the next decade and beyond.
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American companies cannot compete in a global economy when they are burdened with labor contracts that are so numerous, onerous and counter-productive that they make generating a profit an impossibility.
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"If Mayor Bloomberg is serious about taking this issue on, he cannot single out bodegas who will struggle to adapt and compete with corporate franchises, " Hazel Dukes, president of the NAACP New York state branch, said in a statement Friday.
We simply cannot have the situation where a small business is working hard to pay taxes but unable to compete fairly with rivals playing the system to avoid tax.
But so far Congress has done nothing to pass the three pending free-trade agreements with South Korea, Colombia and Panama, which are busy pursuing FTAs with our competitors in Canada, Asia and the EU. U.S. companies simply cannot compete when they must pay a tariff that raises the cost of our goods.
Brazil registered a complaint with the World Trade Organisation stating that "no matter how efficient Brazilian cotton producers are, they cannot compete against the US Treasury".
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