State Vying News Today

It was the last day of the session. it was the last few hours that lawmakers would be there for the legislative session that year. a bill came through at the very last second that would put $15 million in taxpayer money toward some unidentified economic project. the bill came with a big push from the governors office for whatever this project was. heres how the lexington herald leader newspaper described lawmakers trying to find out what the whole thing was about. democratic lawmakers who presse...

>> of course bain capital accepted corporate welfare. bain capital probably wouldnt have made the investment in steel dynamics had it not been for the big corporate capital and welfare that came from the state of indiana. the state offered it in order to entice bain capital into making the investment bain capital did. this is the most common and in a sense the worst among the worst forms of corporate welfare because it doesnt create new jobs. if every state is competing against every other state...