[hkmurakami]

Wouldn't something like this be taking money from the rich and the middle class and redistributing it to the lower-middle class who are out of work in AZ?

[logn]

But if every state refused to offer these tax breaks, then the unemployed could still get jobs and the tax burden would not be lifted from businesses and placed on everyone else. Budget shortfalls on the state level are common and it's generally recouped through sales taxes, cutting services, raising property taxes, etc.

[hobs]

It could be, but don't the lower-middle classes get the most benefit from government dollars? (which are being redistributed to the business, which is owned by the upper classes)

[jorgem]

>> Don't the lower-middle classes get most of the benefit from government dollars?

I wonder how that could be determined. I'm curious to see graph of benefit-per-capita grouped by income brackets.

EDIT: This link is "kindof" it, but there is no way that I can see to break it down by income.

http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/US_per_capita_spending.html

[yummyfajitas]

Another bit of data which is suggestive, but again not exactly the right thing, is consumption data by income bracket:

ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/special.requests/ce/standard/2009/income.txt

The actual right data would be consumption+savings by income bracket, but I don't know where to get the savings data.