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: GamePolitics.comNC Org Against Incentives for Developers of ?Kill with Skill? Games
By pete_gallagher
Not everyone, it seems, is a fan of the recently passed North Carolina tax incentives for videogame makers, film producers and other makers of interactive media.
The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL) bills itself as a 'nonprofit, non-partisan organization devoted to educating the public, bar, and policymakers about constitutional issues,' but what really seems to raise its hackles is 'the granting by governmental entities of so-called ‘incentives' in the form of taxpayers' money being used for corporate welfare.'
The Raleigh-based organization came out against the recently enacted tax breaks in the latest issue of its newsletter, entitled Corporate Welfare Weekly, writing: Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on July 28, 2010 (boomark / email).
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