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Although he is critical that the tax breaks amount to "corporate welfare" for behemoth companies, Mr Worthington says they are a necessary evil if LA wants to compete - both Australia and the UK now have more lucrative tax breaks than California.

Some critics derided the plan as corporate welfare.

“It was just a concern of running it before we gave real tax relief to our constituents — kind of that juxtaposed look of what appears to be corporate welfare before you’re getting tax relief to the people,” Masterson said after deciding against having a Senate vote.

Republicans have derisively called those incentives “corporate welfare.”

His spending was really just a corporate welfare extravaganza.