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Add the parallel help from a special industrialisation fund for the mining regions, and the state's total aid package amounts to just over FFr450m for the creation and maintenance of 7, 337 jobs.

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It is quite a collection: Subsidies for both oil and gas and alternative fuels, enhanced charitable contributions for computers, the infamous NASCAR race track give-away, and special tax breaks for movie and TV producers, mining companies, railroads, rum, and investment companies to name only a few.

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