Legislator criticizes Iowa’s incentives for plant

Published September 25, 2012 4:21pm ET



DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state senator says it wasn’t necessary to give $240 million in state and local tax breaks to a planned southeast Iowa fertilizer plant because the project already qualified for as much as $300 million in federal taxpayer subsidies.

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