Opinion: When taxpayers subsidize businesses, they deserve real benefits too By State Senator Debbie O’Malley — My mother rinsed her children’s diapers outside because the city had never bothered to run water and sewer lines to our neighborhood. This was Albuquerque in the early 1950s, in a working-class Hispanic community near downtown known as Sawmill. At one time the Sawmill industry was the largest industry […] The post Opinion: When taxpayers subsidize businesses, they deserve real benefits too appeared first on New Mexico Political Report .