Michael LaFaive, director of the Center’s Morey Fiscal Policy Initiative, is cited in a story today at Bloomberg Businessweek about the long-term, nationwide failure of corporate welfare incentives. LaFaive said such programs have been around since the mid-1930s, when Mississippi created a program called “Balance Agriculture with Industry.”
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