Why incentives don't work (and what to do instead) ft. John Mozena
On the heels of $824 million in state incentives being handed out today for battery plants in Michigan, I figured it was the right time to share my recent conversation with John Mozena.
He heads up the Center for Economic Accountability, and is a watchdog around the tax and other incentives handed out by governments locally, statewide, and across the United States.
In his view, they don't make that much difference where a business locates but do tend to make politicians look good at the public's expense.
But the price of an effective argument is a solution. And that solution might just be…
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