Thirty years ago this summer, two former governors—Michigan’s John Engler and Illinois’ Jim Edgar—arrived at the National Governors Association meeting with a radical idea: that states band together and stop handing taxpayer-funded subsidies to private businesses. The idea fizzled, and we’ve since seen ever-increasing corporate handouts. As governors convene this year, support for a change is growing again. And this time, they may have the right tool to put taxpayers over tax handouts. The generous subsidies states offer to businesses to relocate (or to prevent businesses from moving someplace…
