In a great review of Kenneth Thomas’s new book on the continuing alarming growth of corporate welfare among state and local governments in the US, David Cay Johnston tells of how millions of taxpayer dollars that could have gone to hire teachers, firefighters, and health workers to provide valuable services in North Carolina ended up subsidizing jobs in Poland instead...Another point of view on the $11M handout from NC Red Hat received to stay. Here's hoping they had sense enough to attach some clawback provisions this time around.
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
NC Pays Dell to Create Jobs in Poland
The Progressive Pulse – NC Pays Dell to Create Jobs in Poland: