Reason has published a subsidy tracker, essentially a search engine for economic development subsidies.  So now when our legislators are saying, “well, everyone else is doing it” we can see exactly what the other states are doing.  The Subsidy Tracker currently contains data on 265,000 subsidy awards from 551 programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Here is what they have found from North Carolina:

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