Californians Are Paying More in Taxes So LeBron James Can Play Basketball with Bugs Bunny
Hollywood, just like Amazon, shops around for massive deals from the government that the rest of us have to pay for.
Corporate Welfare
HQ2: How Amazon Made Governments Do Their Bidding for Free
It wasn't just about financial breaks and subsidies. Cities gave up all sorts of data the giant can use for its own market advantages.
Judge Rules Chicago Can Keep Its Amazon HQ2 Bid Secret, Rejecting FOIA Lawsuit
Chicago becomes the latest major metropolis to hide the massive tax breaks it's offering to Amazon.
Pro Sports Want the Government's Help Taking a Cut of Sports Betting. States Should Say No.
Leagues are lobbying states to institute an "integrity fee" that would entitle them to 1 percent of all the money bet at sportsbooks.
New York Spent $15 Million in Taxes To Build Upstate Film Studio. It Just Sold for $1.
"Who would have ever figured: Hollywood comes to Onondaga, right?" Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at 2014 launch.
The Farm Bill Was Bad Policy, But That's Not Why the House Killed It
The corporate welfare in the farm bill is likely to end up on President Donald Trump's desk anyway, even after a surprising defeat in the House.
This Year's Farm Bill Is Everything Wrong With Washington
The bill is full of handouts to wealthy businesses and other special interests.
Florida Government Employee Arrested for Mining Cryptocurrencies at Work
Florida man accused of ripping off government agency that rips off taxpayers.
Georgia Lt. Gov. To Delta: No NRA Discounts, No Corporate Welfare
Is this a blow against free speech or a win for free markets?
Pittsburgh Tried to Hide Its Amazon Proposal by Claiming It Was a 'Trade Secret'
What trade would that be, exactly?
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Takes Cronyism to the Next Level With $5 Billion Bid for Amazon Headquarters
The PRIME Act would fork over millions to one of the world's wealthiest corporations.
Amazon Announces Shortlist for New HQ; Abandon Hope All Ye Who Live in These Cities
How the hell did Brogden, Pennsylvania, and Anderson, Virginia, not make the list?
The Senate's Rejection of Export-Import Bank Critic Shows How Entrenched Crony Capitalism Is in Washington
Several Republicans broke ranks to kill the nomination of Rep. Scott Garrett to head the Export-Import Bank.
Los Angeles Mulls Multi-Million-Dollar Hotel Subsidy
Payouts to developers are never a win for taxpayers.
Amazon's Second HQ Attracts 238 Bids From Cities Eager to 'Give Away the Farm'
In the race to shower Amazon with economic development cash, the only winning move is not to play-as San Antonio has decided to do.
Atlanta Scrambles to Get Out of Expensive Deal It Forgot It Made
The city's housing authority committed to selling $138 million of government land for $17 million.
Nashville's Future MLS Team Has Two Billionaire Owners; Mayor Wants Taxpayers to Help Fund Stadium Anyway
Mayor Megan Barry used to oppose public subsidies for professional sports, but now she's a cheerleader.
9 Lessons from the Trump/NFL Anthem Wars
Let's start by allowing unwitting taxpayers to quit financing a lucrative entertainment industry.
What the Left Should Like about Public Choice
People are people whether they are acting in the marketplace or in the political arena.
Trump's 'Made In America Week' Inadvertently Highlights Corporate Welfare
Companies invited to the White House collected nearly $600 million in subsidies, loans, and tax breaks.
Trump's Budget Director Confirms: The Export-Import Bank Will 'Continue to Exist' (UPDATE: Trump Declares the Bank a 'Very Good Thing')
If we're going to kill this corporate-welfare program, we can't count on the White House to help.
Trump Preserves the Export-Import Bank
If you're against corporate welfare, the president's budget has some good news-and a lot more bad news.
Wilbur Ross, Crony Capitalist
Donald Trump's pick to run the Commerce Department loves it when the government picks winners and losers.
Pennsylvanians Will Have To Pay For Gov. Chris Christie's Bad Spending Habits
With $80 billion in pension debt and after handing out $1.5 billion in corporate welfare, Christie looks across the Delaware River for a bail-out.
Don't Give Public Funds to the Washington Redskins
The NFL team should not receive taxpayer support.
The Pro Bowl Scam
How the NFL uses a taxpayer-funded tourist agency to subsidize its all-star game.
Show-Me State Suckers Shell Out Super-Subsidies For NFL Rams
There are no good economic arguments and even fewer cultural ones to support handouts to billionaire team owners.
White House Won't Let Go of Cronyist Ex-Im Bank
Attempting to use highway bill to shovel loans to companies like Boeing, GE
So Why Exactly Does Baltimore Own a Money-Losing Hilton?
Current and former politicians prefer cutting real estate deals to doing the less sexy work of basic civic governance
The Ultimate Baltimore/Baseball Symbolism: Millionaires to Play in Empty, Taxpayer Financed Stadium
Camden Yards, long a symbol of downtown-development delusion, stretches a metaphor to the breaking point
Some States Finally Getting Out of the Hollywood-Subsidization Business
Lawmakers slowly realizing that giving money to the film industry makes no economic sense
You Want to Know Who Benefits from the Ex-Im Bank? Not Small Businesses.
Foreign airlines and oil companies top list of recipients.
The United States of Corporate Welfare
Which company got the most targeted tax breaks, subsidies, and grants in the state where you live?
Scott Walker Flip-Flops in Favor of Federal Ethanol Mandate
Wisconsin governor, no stranger to corporate welfare, sings a new tune in front of Iowa farmers
Export-Import Bank Data Returns, With Important Info Still Missing
Who needs information about who is getting the loans, what they're spending it on, and who is repaying them?
How the Government Subsidizes Unsustainable Development
'The rest of us are assuming all of the risks.'
Elizabeth Warren, Hypocrite, Supports Ex-Im Bank
The woman best known for demonizing big businesses nevertheless wants to maintain an outlandishly generous subsidy package for them.
Ex-Im Bank: Crony Capitalists on the Defensive
A chance to put a dent in the corporate state.
Is the Export-Import Bank Heading to the Gallows?
Officials reportedly removed over alleged kickbacks.
Ralph Nader on Dave Brat: 'A Clear Populist Challenge by Main Street Against Wall Street'
The left looks rightward.