Corporate relocation incentives: A problem with no solution – WP Original

By: Mark Glennon*   October 5, 2013   State governments’ love-hate view of relocation incentives ends up with love winning, and there’s no clear way to change that.   Two Illinois legislative leaders put this question directly to a group of prominent investment professionals at a lunch meeting I sat in on a couple years ago: “How can we stop these demands for tax breaks from companies threatening to leave the state?”  Dead silence. Not one had an answer or even a thought. The legislators were Democrats, the investors were mostly financial conservatives, but none liked what was happening. Nor

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