We reflect on the "plus ça change" of state and local tax incentives. Professor Nathan Jensen of the University of Texas-Austin (and Justin's fellow Wisconsinite/Green Bay Packers shareholder) explains why tax incentives are "bad policy but good politics," with focus on why elected officials can't seem to get enough of them, why less is more for incentive transparency, and how the federal government may have accidentally set off the next generation of incentive wars, among many other topics. In Ripped from the Headlines we revisit the promises made and promises kept on Amazon's "HQ2" sweepstakes.

Link to the article referenced in Ripped from the Headlines: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-21/amid-stalled-construction-in-national-landing-amazon-gets-no-hq2-incentives