Employing all the business acumen he picked up while working at Lehman Brothers, John-Boy the Wonder Guv has proudly announced his latest bright idea: He'd like to throw $400 million in tax abatements at Sears to get them to locate some operations here in Ohio.
Sears? Really? Who goes to Sears anymore? Who ever did? (In the words of Frank Zappa, "Is that a real poncho or a Sears poncho?") Right now, without Google Maps, I couldn't find a Sears store if you paid me. Great idea to spend our money on them!
Kasich swears it's not corporate welfare, but a brilliant masterstroke that will reinvigorate the state. He says the deal passes his special secret return-on-investment test. He also says he'll soon be dangling similar "Come To Ohio" tax deals to a major incandescent light bulb manufacturer, the apparel company that produces uniforms for the U.S. Postal Service, and Tata Industries, the Indian automaker of a $2000 cardboard car.
Ain't that the same pose as the Wizard of Oz's Tin Man when he says, "If I only had a brain."
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