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A&O and Herbies share £3m of public funding for Belfast launches

Governments incentivise business to help economies grow. How do they do that? They spend taxpayers' money because that is how everything is paid for. It's an investment and, possibly, a very good one for e city that will benefit from having an extra couple of hundred jobs created. Yes, A&O probably don't need the money, but then businesses that get tax breaks for coming to the UK probably don't need those either. It's pretty basic free-market capitalism, something which I'd have thought most readers of The Lawyer would understand.

4-Feb-2011

2:50 pm