http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/10/business/10STAT.html On states offering incentives and subsidies to companies in order to get them to relocate. Indiana Governor Joseph E. Kernan says: “I understand the argument that taking jobs away from Boston and putting them here is nationally a zero-sum game. … But Indiana, like virtually every other state, is not going to unilaterally disarm.”
Richard Stallman has a solution: “… the states should increase their bargaining power against companies by forming a union. We could call it the ‘United States of America.’ …” 13:13
