USDA Backed $7.5 Million Stimulus Loan for Convicted Financial Felon
Lachlan Markay, a blogger for the Heritage Foundation, discusses a loan given to an individual associated with the fraud at WorldCom: The U.S. Department of Agriculture guaranteed a $7.45 million loan...
View ArticleSolar firm that got $26M in Miss. loans is closing
Jeff Amy writes at Bloomberg about a company that received loans from Mississippi taxpayers, and is now going under: Mississippi taxpayers may have only an empty Senatobia building and some solar panel...
View ArticleElectric Cars and Crony Federalism
Rich Tucker at Heritage’s Foundry blog writes about the possible cronyism related to the opening of an electric vehicle company in Mississippi, and why these kinds of incentives are harmful. For...
View ArticleMississippi Auto Subsidies
Generous auto subsidies don’t guarantee higher wages – at least, that’s the take-away from this Huffington Post piece on state subsidies for auto manufacturing plants. What’s more, a Mississippi plant...
View ArticleIncentives? Or Cronyism?
Scott Beaulier describes cronyism and why it’s a problem for society. He also lists a few examples of cronyism in the Southeast. For instance: Our neighbors in Mississippi have famously made use of...
View ArticleUseless $350 Million NASA Project Mandated By Congress
A launch-facility for a cancelled NASA rocket project will finish construction this year. The Tribune-Democrat reports that the $350 million facility was going to be used for a now cancelled rocket...
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