John Mozena

@johnmoz.bsky.social

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Working for economic development transparency & accountability at the Center for Economic Accountability - @accountableecon.bsky.social. Senior Fellow, Reason Foundation. Opinions=mine. #DCTID

A chart listing the total economic development incentives handed out by each state between 2018 and 2023, with Michigan having handed out $2.663 billion, far ahead of second-place South Carolina at $1.617 billion.

Table titled "Estimated Tax Revenue Impacts: State Agencies vs Private Firms" from a 2024 Rhode Island Department of Revenue report on film tax credits, listing official audit results in 14 states between 2016 and 2022.

Scene from the TV show Arrested Development:

Woman: "Well, did it work for those people?"
Man: "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might but... But it might work for us."

The "muscled black arm and white arm clasping hands" meme with one arm labeled "big business," one labeled "big government" and the joined hands labeled "economic development subsidies."

Photograph of busy truck traffic over Ambassador Bridge between Detroit, MI and Windsor, ON.