If you're talking about the issue of how companies make those decisions, it's an unfortunate truth that in some industries like aerospace and auto parts, they're more prone than others to look for government assistance of one sort or another. Rightly or wrongly, it's part of playing the game if we want to be in those industries. Broadly speaking, you start getting into the realm of picking winners when you're doing that: why are we focusing on this rather than that over there? Generally speaking, the research shows that picking winners is a poor use of government resources. But all of this is to say that I agree that it's a public policy trade-off. When you bring a large plant into a community, it can have very large spin-off effects for the community, so you want to make sure you're maximizing the benefits a community gets if you're getting into that game of helping them with their investments.
On May 10th, 2016. See this statement in context.