Where do the funds come from? The same place all the funds for TAX CUTS come from. They come from the belief that if you take the action, the re-action is a net *increase* in business activity and thus the program is paid for with the incremental tax revenue generated.

*IF* you believed that a $10M subsidy would bring $20B to the state, every politician on the planet would sign up for it. But it's *exactly* why it's B.S. when those exact same people all claim the free market should decide the winners...
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