Obamanomics in Washington State: Boeing’s record subsidy

Published November 13, 2013 5:00am ET



Boeing this week won the largest subsidy a company has ever won from a state when Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Wash., signed into law an $8.7 billion package of tax breaks just for the jetmaker.

Boeing got the deal, in part, by threatening to leave the state, which is the same way they secured a $3.244 billion package of Washington State goodies ten years ago in the special 2003 “Boeing Session” of the state legislature.

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