Tell that to the thousands of other Missouri employers who are NOT getting the same sweetheart deal.
How would you like it if your taxes went up because a legislator decided to give me a “tax incentive” to stay here?
That still doesn't make it a bailout.
From the article, I gather that Ford is supposed to make a rather large investment in the state in exchange for the tax break. Like it or not, that's the way states, regions, cities get businesses to come or stay. Not too many years ago, WV got Cabela's to come to Wheeling just that way. If another state made a better offer, they prolly would have gone there instead.
How would you like it if your taxes went up because a legislator decided to give me a tax incentive to stay here?
If you have a mortgage, and use the interest deduction on your 1040, I already do. That's just the way it is.