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...