The authors look at the incentives that state and local governments have given to Wal-Mart; they uncover at least $1 billion in subsidies. Wal-Mart should not get government subsidies, the authors suggest

The authors analyze Illinois' economic development policies. They say that, particularly in the cases of tax increment financing, enterprise zones, and Economic Development for a Growing Economiy, the state has repeatedly taken programs with laudable original intentions and so loosened their...