Commentary: Boeing Gets Corporate Welfare In S.C.


The Commentary: Boeing gets corporate welfare in S.C. by Issac Bailey in The Myrtle Beach Sun, adds a little perspective on the NLRB dispute with Boeing,

But there is an overlooked aspect of the dispute. According to an analysis by The (Charleston) Post & Courier, Boeing is being given a package of incentives worth more than $900 million – at least $150 million more than Boeing has said it would spend to build the plant – this while education and other important programs are being cut, undermining the state’s ability to compete over the long haul.

That essentially means South Carolina taxpayers are building the plant and giving Boeing maybe a couple hundred million dollars on top of it. Question for all those who claim to love the free market: If Boeing is such a great deal, why aren’t market forces enough to help the company make a profit without the public’s help? And if it isn’t such a great deal why should the public be on the hook if the rosy predictions about annual economic impact are never realized?

They also claimed that right-to-work states – states that actively crush union formation – are “outperforming forced-unionism states.”

This is what they didn’t mention: South Carolina, one of the country’s strongest right-to-work states, has among the nation’s lowest wages and highest unemployment rates, worst rates of health insurance and millions of workers who are afraid every day of losing their jobs if they decide to use their free speech rights in ways the boss might not like, with little recourse.

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