JIM HENLEY POINTS to an Institute for Justice suit over business subsidies. It’s an excellent post. In reply, Eve Tushnet comments on:

a pattern you could see regularly in New Haven–taxes very high (and, in NH, so was union agitation). Major employer or potential employer threatens to leave/not come. City negotiates special tax incentive deal, a.k.a. taxpayers are basically paying for this particular business to stay/come. Big business stays/comes. Big business is happy! Small business, lacking special deal, closes. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Yes, this is the “skybox liberalism” (though plenty of big-business conservatives like it, too) that someone was pointing out earlier.