How Detroit/Michigan lost an opportunity to land a manufacturer

[nain rouge]

The problem is that it takes more to attract businesses than the government being "business friendly". Antarctica could make itself the most business friendly environment in the history of the world, but it wouldn't change anything. In fact, I'd hazard to guess that many so-called business friendly policies actually make the overall condition of the state worse, which in turn does more to chase away businesses than a small tax break can fix.

Let me put it this way. When Amazon sees a state bending itself over for businesses, it doesn't it move its offices there. It locates a shipping warehouse there, instead.