8 Quotes by Greg LeRoy

[A 2009 study of the Connecticut Development Agency found that companies receiving tax incentives] had created only 9 percent of the jobs they had forecast. The average subsidy for each new job: $367,910.

We believe that economic development subsidies for job creation -- if they are serious about reducing poverty -- must be better integrated with public transit. These projects demonstrate many ways that localities are making that connection.

There have been no claims from anybody in those states that anybody got harmed.

It's a red herring. All state and local taxes combined as a cost of doing business for the average company in America comes to only 0.8 percent.

It's an injury to the state that doesn't get the deal. And everybody else has to pay for that lost revenue.

If you don't evaluate your programs, you can't make smart decisions. You're just throwing money at an issue without any clue whether you're getting any bang for your buck.

If you take out New York City, New York State's economy is right down there with Mississippi and Louisiana. We need more reinvestment in people not corporate investment disguised as redevelopment.

The hard question is where the engines are going to come from. The single biggest ripple would be an engine plant.