Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20131120:17:39:00
Very few, very wealthy group. jared, i don't think -- this is something that has quietly happened and is more than in vogue. it is now almost business as usual, giving these corporations massive tax breaks to bring them to states. i think what is stunning to me, and this was in the wall street journal, is how the tax language for each state tax code is written around corporations. i'll give you an example. in sears in illinois, sears, which has been based in chicago since 1887, threatened to move out if it didn't get incentives. an exemption was passed for a, quote, discount department store t...