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When it comes to state tax incentives, “economists are beginning to wonder whether such initiatives create or save jobs at all. Companies taking advantage of lucrative tax incentives are jumping from state to state—and bringing their jobs with them. Sure, some states will see job gains, but they may be only temporary.” National picture unchanged.

Michael Cannon explains why “Wal-Mart has gone native. That great symbol of the benefits of free-market competition now joins its erstwhile enemies among the legions of rent-seeking weasels who would rather run to government for protection than earn their keep by making people’s lives better.” In the free market, competition means playing cutthroat.

“Those who postulate Democratic shenanigans as the cause of Coleman’s difficulties fail to reckon with the December 18 decision of the Minnesota Supreme Court on the inclusion of previously rejected absentee ballots in the recount.” Essentially, it appears the Coleman campaign was caught unprepared, and before they knew it, had lost the legal argument.

WASHINGTON (CNN)– A new national poll suggests that a bare majority of Americans support President Barack Obama’s health care plan. But the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning indicates that most people are worried that their health care costs would go up if the administration’s proposals are passed and only one in five think […]