A few months ago I wrote on op-ed for the Kansas City Star on my research on the “Kansas City Border” war.  I did some analysis of the main Kansas economic incentive program and found that firms that were given subsidies didn’t create more jobs than a control group of firms that didn’t receive subsidies.

My op-ed took months to publish, got stuck in a local section of the paper, and they changed the title.  My original title was: “Should you Pay $25 Million for 45 Fewer Jobs?”

They could have just said “no thank you”.

Anyway.  Here it is.