Lawsuit challenges Goodyear incentives

The N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law is challenging the Goodyear incentives.

The Raleigh-based legal group filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the $60 million given to Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. in Fayetteville and Bridgestone Firestone in Wilson.

"The state constitution requires that any expenditure of state funds be for a public purpose. In the past, government and big corporations have said that massive corporate welfare was necessary to create jobs and they claimed that was a public purpose," said Jeanette Doran, senior staff attorney with the law group. "Now, North Carolina is just giving away $60 million and not requiring a single new job. There is no public purpose in that."

Earlier, the group lost a challenge to incentives for Dell. (N&O)