Durham officials are scratching their heads over what to do about a request from Lenovo—the Chinese company that purchased IBM’s personal computer business— that it be given roughly $14 million in incentives and tax breaks, or face losing the business to another state. The topic heats up Sunday on NBC 17’s “At Issue” when Chad Adams joins the debate. During Friday’s show taping, he and co-host Donna Martinez made the case that offering corporate welfare is a downward spiral that puts state and local governments in the position of picking winners and losers in the marketplace, and penalizes existing businesses, who end up subsidizing their competition.
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