@Sears Company took the IL tax credit and ran - 150mil in tax savings and still laid off workers - r/t and boycott

" To sum up, Sears fired 100 people two months after its state taxes were cut by $150 million. Sears complained that it anticipates reporting fourth-quarter earnings of less than half of the $933 million it made the previous year."

read rest at http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/feb/20/company-tax-credit-job-creation/