It’s too late to stop the Arkansas legislature — much less educate them.

Nonetheless, with the Senate poised to zip along millions in tax breaks today, it’s worth an early read of Ernest Dumas’ column on all the, to put it kindly, misunderstandings on which these tax cuts are based and the future state disaster they might cause.

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(I’m glad somebody said something about giving an enormous tax break for the gas electric utilities burn in part to generate electricity to sell at a profit in other states. That’s a real job creator, increasing profits for multi-state utilities off their generating business.)

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