Cartoon: On our backs

Industrial Development Agencies were a great concept initially, but that now seem to be used primarily just to keep ordinary retail operations from moving.

A savvy retail operator of course COULD threaten to leave town, get a sweet tax break from the IDA as an enticement, then stay put.

(Not that anyone would abuse something like that...)

Matt Davies is Newsday’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist.

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