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How to Shrink an Economy

  • Nathan Benefield
  • February 29, 2008
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Penn State Altoona econ professor John McGinnis writes on how Pennsylvania’s “economic development” spending shrinks our economy – first by taxing to pay for this corporate welfare, then by encouraging private investment in politically selected, but economically inefficient, projects.

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