Eggcorn or typo: largesse/largeness

[sagehen]

>By the mayor of New Bedford, Scott W. Lang, a critic of a proposal to
>put wind turbines in Buzzards Bay, as quoted in the Boston Globe:
>
>"I can't imagine that the report completely eliminated the idea that
>wind power might have some practical purpose down in our area.  But
>if you saw the largesse of this proposal, well, I haven't met too
>many people who looked at it and said it made any sens4e in the area
>we're talking about."
>
>I presume Lang meant that the developer would be giving the power to
>the people without charge.
>
>Joel
>
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Not necessarily.  Judging from the proposals that have been floated in this
area (far northern NY)," largesse" might  well be the intended sense.
[ Unrealistically high tax benefits, very generous leasing fees and other
blandishments are being fluttered before  a largely poor & minimally
employed locale population, to get them to agree to let big corps reap much
bigger $'s from various levels of government in the form of tax rebates,
subsidies, &c.  The actual power yield from these projects cannot possibly
justify the programs.]
AM


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