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The Man Without a Plan, Uncle Sam
The man without a plan? That would be Uncle Sam! It has been 20 years since cities started adopting clawbacks, often in the wake of plant closings, and they are everywhere today. It has been 14...
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Volkswagen’s Tennessee Subsidy Deal: Are Taxpayers Being Taken for a Ride?
Tennessee officials are still celebrating Volkswagen’s announcement last week that it will build a new assembly plant in Chattanooga, describing it as a big step toward their state becoming the...
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The Recovery Act: The Transparency Gift that Keeps on Giving
Largely lost in the partisan bickering over the stimulus has been the law’s enormous positive impact on improving government transparency. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) is...
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No Job Subsidies for Companies That Discriminate Against the Unemployed
Should taxpayers subsidize companies that refuse to even interview unemployed workers? Of course not! Yet despite the fact that tax breaks are invariably justified in the name of reducing...
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Large, Profitable Corporations Get Huge Federal Tax Breaks
The most consistently profitable companies in the Fortune 500 only pay about half the statutory federal income tax rate—a fourth pay less than 10 percent. Some even get refunds from Uncle Sam—30...
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New Year Brings New Recovery Board Chair
By Andrew Seifter, Good Jobs First President Obama has appointed Kathleen S. Tighe, Inspector General of the Department of Education, as the new chair of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency...
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Wisconsin Leaves Taxpayers in the Dark
A new report released by WISPIRG details the failure of the state of Wisconsin to properly disclose whether its lucrative corporate subsidies are providing the promised benefits. Among WISPIRG’s...
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