I’m not trying to be political.  I’m just minding my own business watching a video podcast when suddenly it is shoved in my face:

Analysts have said that Dell could face several obstacles to selling or outsourcing its plants, including incentive deals with local and state governments in the United States. Absorbing higher U.S. labor costs also could be a disincentive to Asian manufacturers.

It is not clear how the sale or outsourcing of Dell’s Forsyth plant would affect the $37 million in local incentives and up to $268 million in state incentives that it is eligible to receive.

Deborah Barnes, a spokeswoman for the N.C. Department of Commerce, said it is possible that the state incentives for Dell could be transferred to the new owner or operator of the Forsyth plant.

Those incentives, which come from the state Job Development Investment Grant (JDIG) program, are paid to the company that employs the workers, Barnes said. Dell has received about $1.5 million from that program to date. Dell also has received more than $2 million from the N.C. Revenue Department and more than $80,000 from the William S. Lee Act.

She said that a new company would have to meet the same incentive standards as Dell — minimum levels of full-time employees, and salary and benefit requirements.

Why are we arguing over corporate tax cuts in this election when we have loads of corporate welfare programs?  We tax people to support corporations to pay people so they can be taxed to support corporations.  Are we insane?