Extension narrative · #233 · the cost of opacity
The ledger, as a band you can move
The whole assessment hinges on four withheld or non-binding inputs: the building share of the $500M, the real job count, whether the campus takes the sales-tax exemption, and the School District Compensation the county won't disclose. None is invented here; each is turned across its industry-reference band (industry reference, not this campus). The simulator prices the opacity — and shows, record by record, exactly how much disclosure would narrow it.
Net 15-year public give: $71.8M – $89.2M for ~50 jobs — about 0.1% of the county's 49,577 covered jobs. Full essay: the economic ledger →