Ron Norick eventually figured out that the secret to economic development wasn't incentivizing companies up front, it was about creating a place where businesses wanted to locate, and so he pushed an initiative called MAPS that basically was a penny-on-the-dollar sales tax to build a bunch of stuff.
Norick percebeu que o segredo do desenvolvimento econômico não era dar incentivos às empresas, e sim criar o lugar ideal para atrair negócios, e assim criou uma iniciativa chamada MAPS, que era uma taxa comercial usada para a construção de muitas coisas.