John Mozena
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Working for transparent & accountable economic development at @AccountableEcon. Fellow at @ReasonFdn, @BCP_Policy, @ITRFoundation. Opinions=mine. #DCTID
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http://www.economicaccountability.org 02-04-2009 16:39:52
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COMMENTARY: Hollywood handouts lvrj.com/post/3485115 via Las Vegas Review-Journal #nvleg
Excellent decision on any abatements. Now do the same thing with other requests for subsidies. St. Louis board says it will not support abatement for proposed data center near Armory stltoday.com/news/article_2… via St. Louis Post-Dispatch Show-Me Institute
For more analysis on why targeted economic development incentives - including subsidies for sports stadiums - are bad policy, see the recent Competitive Enterprise Institute paper by myself & John Mozena of Center for Economic Accountability, "Corporate Social Irresponsibility" cei.org/studies/corpor…
As someone who knows the pain of dealing with all the idiosyncratic ways a government can format an annual financial report I can't tell you how excited I am for this tool to have launched for public use. Proud to be a Reason Foundation fellow and huge congrats to the team behind this.