“If you’ve got some states doing it, it’s hard for the others not to do it. It’s like unilaterally disarming.”
—Former Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar, on his unsuccessful efforts to rein in the runaway trend toward tax incentives offered by states to lure industry.
Louisiana Voice 
It’s called whipsawing.
The race to the bottom that these states are doing by undercutting each other and forcing tax payers to subsidize companies is disgusting.
This is the very reason that corporateers pretend to be such champions of States’ Rights, because it allows them to play the States off each the same way they play different groups of workers off each other.
edit: “off each other”