Lots of communities waste money trying to lure companies with tax incentives. But nobody wastes money quite like the Greater Kansas City area.
That’s because the Kansas City, Mo., metro area spills over into Kansas, involving state governments in the bidding. It is a game that some prominent businessmen want to halt, saying it does nothing to encourage new economic activity.
Seventeen prominent business leaders, including top officials with Hallmark and Sprint Nextel, recently wrote a letter to the governors of Kansas and Missouri, asking them to put an end to the “economic border war.”
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Author:Alan Greenblatt
