States have been in this race with one another to see who can give the most attractive incentives, usually in the form of tax breaks, to businesses.

It's a discriminatory practice that implicates competition between the states. It would be a tariff by any other name.

No one wants to be the one, as they put it, to unilaterally disarm.

No one dares to unilaterally disarm. That's where the court comes in.

State and local governments are caught in a local bidding war. The only losers are the taxpayers.