Katherine Thomas' Nov. 14 People's Forum letter on behalf of the N.C. Economic Developers Association challenging Jesse White's Point of View piece calling for the end to government incentives for selected big businesses should be seen for what it really is - protectionism of the worst sort.
Only two groups financially benefit from the state's current policy of giving away the public's tax dollars to a small number of national and international companies - economic developers and the businesses getting the handout. While teachers, mental health workers and badly needed public services are cut, those economic developers playing the incentives game - whether public sector or private - and their corporate beneficiaries dip into the public treasury to pad their own pockets.
White, director of the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of Economic and Business Development, is right in all respects. Thomas is wrong.
