WEDC official admits group does not follow the law

Our state awarded hundreds of millions in tax credits and cash payments to companies to create jobs without ever checking to see if jobs were actually created.

“We have not been able to verify the jobs,” said Secretary Mark Hogan at a recent public hearing of the Joint Committee on Audit.

In this statement, the head of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) confirmed what several years of audits repeatedly found: our state awarded hundreds of millions in tax credits and cash payments to companies to create jobs without ever checking to see if jobs were actually created....

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Ken Notes: Have I ever mentioned if we offered the same incentives as tax credits based on the number of employees actually paying state taxes we wouldn`t even have to audit the loans, grants, gifts.... arghhhhhhhhhhh!