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Corporate Incentives: Down the Slippery Slope

By Bob Burtman

INDY Week | September 13, 2007

North Carolina's delusional economic development policy headed for the rubber room recently, as the legislature and Gov. Mike Easley clashed, then compromised, over a bill to give Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. up to $40 million to keep its Fayetteville plant open and stay in the state.

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