Gambling with taxpayer money and losing: Florida's business incentives program

Incentive programs fail because they do not account for the fact that the firms are highly volatile and prone to failure.

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  • | 6:00 a.m. April 20, 2018
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By Adrian Moore and Spence Purnell | Contributors

 

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