Euphemism
According to the
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, high-priced law firm
Bryan Cave gets a loan from the city:
The law firm still will receive a forgivable loan of $300,000 from the city to offset some of the cost of expanding and renovating its offices.
To those of us outside of the public-private partnership working together to suck money from taxpayers for the betterment of the public-private partners, this sounds an awful like corporate welfare. But it's just a loan, the city insists, waving its hand to implant that thought into the mind of the weak or the inattentive.