Alabama won with a 253 million-dollar package. Alabama gave Mercedes-Benz 92 million dollars to buy the site, build the plant, and build a training center. ... The Archer Daniels Midland Corporation (ADM) is considered the "most prominent recipient of corporate welfare in recent U.S. history" (Bovard, 1995). ...
When John gets home and gains knowledge that his hard earned tax dollars helped fund the $600,000 Tristate Joint Peanut Project in Alabama (or the equivalent of 9,400 anthrax vaccinations for US troops), how will he react? ... "Just When the Right Thought Big Government Was History..." ...
Although disliked by Northeastern states and California, who voted 61-14 as a group in favor of repeal, the income tax, according to Randolph Paul, "produced needed revenue at a critical period of American history when other revenue-raising methods would have probably failed" (29). ... Only one state, Alabama, approved it in 1909, but Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas followed. ...
