UNLV hopes to tap more revenue sources for proposed stadium
Alan Snel at the Las Vegas Review-Journal writes about an interesting instance of local corporate welfare: A UNLV stadium is benefitting from Tax Increment Financing (a local tax incentive), but is now...
View ArticleVideo: Job creation or corporate welfare? Florida Edition
Doug Smith, a Fox 13 investigative reporter, highlights the growing trend of using economic incentives to entice companies to move to a particular state. The questions remains, would they have come...
View ArticlePete Sepp: It’s Not Economic Development, It’s Corporate Welfare
In this excellent Heartland Institute podcast, National Taxpayers’ Union Vice President Pete Sepp discusses the problem of the corporate welfare wolf in the clothing of economic development. They...
View ArticleHefty tax breaks for Westchester developers have foes demanding end to...
Even as property taxes are rising by eleven percent a year, New York’s Newsday reports that property developers are receiving tax breaks that last for decades. In an era of rising taxes, big...
View ArticleLouisiana, we have a problem.
JR Ball, a writer for the Baton Rouge-based publication Business Report, discusses the latest goodies that a private enterprise is receiving from a local government. Costco is the latest beneficiary...
View ArticleGlanbia: A wise use of taxpayer money, or an example of corporate welfare?
In this Idaho Reporter article, Dustin Hurst highlights the difference of opinion in the fight over funds that were allocated for a single company — Glanbia. Supports of the deal say it’s simply an...
View ArticleStates Reviving Incentives for Firms to Relocate
While a few months old, we thought it’d be interesting to take a look at this article on state-based incentives for companies. According to Karen Maracek, a writer for Kiplinger, many states and cities...
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