corporate welfare

Imagine you are a middle school student called on stage in front of 75 of your friends and peers. Your teacher offers you a piece of chocolate cake but, in…

Try as I might, I can’t see the wisdom behind this proposed “transformative” projects expansion. I can’t. It’s terrible. For as long as I can remember, governors have tried…

In 1992, Louisiana became the first state in the nation to offer incentives for film productions. At first, few states bothered to adopt similar giveaways. The 2000s saw a flurry…

The incentives game just keeps getting worse.  It used to be that state and local governments would put together a package to help lure a large company for a major…

This week, the bids were all finally submitted for Amazon’s new HQ2.  Raleigh shipped a 32-pound box (!) containing its proposal.  Charlotte set up a website.  Winston-Salem, Greensboro,…

Cronyism got a boost last week in the General Assembly. Dan Way reports for Carolina Journal: State Rep. Ted Davis, R-New Hanover, bucked conservative critics who strenuously objected to…

Last week (9/22), Carolina Journal’s “Daily Journal” featured an important article by my colleague Jon Sanders. It focused on Amazon’s attempt to fleece North Carolina’s taxpayers by soliciting an unprecedented incentive…

Earlier this month Amazon announced it was looking for a second headquarters in North America. The company said it would involve 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in investment. It is…

I was driving through rural North Carolina last week on my way to the beach when I spotted a car ahead of me that was displaying two bumper stickers. One…

Click here to view and here to listen to Dr. Roy Cordato discussing this Spotlight report. RALEIGH — North Carolina should scrap its “hidden, dishonest, deceptive” corporate income…