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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 governor's office for whatever this project was. here's how the lexington herald leader newspaper described lawmakers trying to find out what the whole thing was about. democratic lawmakers who pressed for details were told that little could be revealed at this time in order to keep kentucky compe...

>> of course bain capital accepted corporate welfare. bain capital probably wouldn't 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 doesn't create new jobs. if every state is competing against every other state for the same steel plant, basically it's taxpayers in one state vying against taxpayers in anothe...