Economic development coalitions are going regional. They are thinking confining corporate welfare to a single county may not be as seductive as inducements from multiple partners. If the trend continues, business will be induced by all governments to locate anywhere.
The results would be the same. The innovators who know how to live within a budget would expand and contract with business, and fall by the wayside when their products or business models have outlived their useful lives. The big shots who may not know how to make or sell anything but know how to schmooze government will cause taxpayers to fund their subsidies. The useful lifespan of productive businesses, therefore, will be eroded by the new taxes. And so on, and so on, . . .
