Today, the Dayton Daily News editorial board finally agreed with a position I’ve staked out as one of the primary threats to our society: Corporate welfare. It’s a stunning turnabout for a company that has never met a tax break they didn’t wholeheartedly endorse. The ones for Reynolds & Reynolds, Relizon, Workflow One etc- were Read More
One of my father’s favorite jokes goes like this: A guy walks up to a starlet in a bar and says “Will you sleep with me for a million dollars?” She says “but of course, darling” Then he asks if she’ll sleep with him for a dollar. She replies- “What kind of woman do you Read More
This is exactly why we can’t give tax breaks to corporations in the name of “economic development.” Corporations don’t care about anything, except the bottom line, so the money from Georgia, goes South, way south: NCR Corp. plans to spend about $37.6 million to build a new manufacturing and research and development center in Brazil Read More
Ballpark Village was going to be another “silver bullet” solution for all of our problems. The way it was supposed to work was your tax dollars would backstop rich private developers so they could overbuild our retail inventory and play shell games while skimming what they could before pulling out of town- long before the Read More
It’s as if a crime has been committed. Mike Turner, Jon Husted, John Boehner, Sherrod Brown all have their panties in a twist that “Federal Stimulus Funds” were used as part of the incentive package to poach NCR from Dayton to Georgia: NCR’s news release touting its decision to move jobs from Dayton to the Read More
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