Alabama: Toyota and Mazda got $900 million for an auto assembly plant. Amazon.com got $54 million for a fulfillment center. Google got $81 million for a data center.
Georgia: Kia got $410 million for an auto assembly plant. Baxter International got $211 million for a pharmaceutical production facility.
Kentucky: Amazon.com got $75 million for a distribution facility. Toyota got $146 million for an auto assembly plant expansion.
Louisiana: IBM got $152 million for a technology center. ExxonMobil got $118 million for a refinery upgrade.
Mississippi: Continental Tire got $595 million for a manufacturing facility. Toyota got $354 million for an assembly plant.
Missouri: Amazon.com got $78 million for a fulfillment center. Boeing got $229 million to expand its operations in the state.
Ohio: Amazon.com got $93 million for a data center. General Electric got $98 million for a global operations center.
It may be unrealistic to expect that corporations will abandon facilities in the anti-abortion states, but they may face pressure to avoid future investments in those places.
The big subsidy packages that may be offered by those states to lure the investments could also come to be seen in a very different light – the same way that gifts from the opioid-tainted Sackler family to major cultural institutions are now treated as toxic.
Not long ago, we saw how economic pressure on states helped to undermine opposition to gay marriage. We will now see whether similar pressure, exercised by targeting big business investment, can also help defeat the attack on reproductive rights.
Originally published on Dirt Diggers Digest.