Corporate Welfare in Tennessee: Is Potential Financial Growth More Important Than Protecting Tennessee’s Values?

Tennessee has committed $30 million to a corporation who seeks to hold the monopoly on all coffee production in the world, all while purposefully promoting an agenda that promotes values contrary to what the majority of Tennesseans want in our state. Here’s how it happened.
Tennessee is not for sale.

This week, Governor Bill Lee went on video after the election of Zohran Mamdani and told New York businesses to pack up and come to Tennessee because we are “open for business.” That pitch lands wrong for a couple of big reasons, and I want to say this the way folks actually talk around a […]
Corporate welfare always begets more corporate welfare, ultimately at the expense of your liberty.

You might remember that in October 2021, Governor Bill Lee called for a special session of the General Assembly to make way for Tennessee’s largest-ever tax incentive program which amounted to almost $1 BILLION carved out for the Ford Motor Company. The promise, of course, was job creation. In Tennessee, we take your tax dollars […]