
Center for Economic Accountability
@accountableecon
Transparency, accountability and market-based reform of state & local economic development programs across America. Pay for your own damn stadium.
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http://www.EconomicAccountability.org 14-06-2018 14:57:18
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The thing to understand about this scandal is that the Michigan Economic Development Corporation is operating as designed. Michigan's politicians and 'business leaders' have created a system where they and their cronies are the ones writing the checks, cashing the checks & doing oversight, all at taxpayer expense.

Kentucky taxpayers could be subsidizing data centers twice: first, to build and equip them, and then, in the former of higher energy bills to satisfy their almost insatiable energy demand, John Mozena writes. courier-journal.com/story/opinion/…


👉Corporate welfare isn't socially responsible👈 That's the main point of a new report from Richard Morrison and myself published today by Competitive Enterprise Institute. In it, we propose a new way to think about interactions between governments & businesses in the name of "economic development."



