Hello and welcome to the political orphanage, a home for pluckyisfits and Problem Solvers.

I'm your host Andrew Heaton.

And this is one of those episodes that's going to make my blood pressure creep up to dubious levels

because we're going to discuss crony capitalism, corporate handouts disguised as economic development.

The difference between centralized planning and essential government services, between that of sidewalk

socialism and or corporate welfare and the multiplier effect.

And eventually, stadium subsidies, my old nemesis.

We meet again stadiums paid for using my money.

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My guest today is John Mosina.

He is the president of the Center for Economic Accountability.

And we are going to talk about economic development

subsidies but more specifically I want to talk to him about crony capitalism

because I think economic development subsidies is a very technical term that does give some wiggle room to people

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