Economics is easy for people who can faultlessly predict the future. But who is that? Lots of states a lot of the time make tax-incentive deals with business co

Economics is easy for people who can faultlessly predict the future. But who is that? Lots of states a lot of the time make tax-incentive deals with business corporations that may or may really make the economic pie bigger. (Well, almost all of those deals make the economic pie bigger for the business corporation, at least in the short term, but the question is always whether they really make the pie bigger for an individual taxpayer like you or me who isn't a direct party to the deal.)