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How Louisiana's corporate tax incentive reform helped communities raise more money

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A Total oil refining plant is seen near a sugar cane field near Port Arthur, Texas on Aug. 28, 2020. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
A Total oil refining plant is seen near a sugar cane field near Port Arthur, Texas on Aug. 28, 2020. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)

Louisiana had one of the highest rates of corporate tax breaks in the country. Then in 2016, Gov. John Bel Edwards issued a pair of executive orders that fundamentally changed the way corporate tax breaks worked in the state.

Here & Now's Lisa Mullins talks with Pat Garofalo, who wrote about what happened next in his newsletter Boondoggle.

This segment aired on November 15, 2022.

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