Also, letting UTX keep more of their money and those jobs here avoids the social costs that inevitably follow downsizing...from unemployment compensation to job retraining. All of which is extra-constitutional and of limited effectiveness anyway.
Remember, it’s not just Carrier’s jobs that were saved, but the jobs of the companies that supply Carrier with the materials it needs to manufacture its product.
It is utterly amusing to me to see supposed “Libertarians” and self styled “True Conservatives” busy mouthing the Marxist economic dogma that all economic output is property of the State and any time the state takes less it is a “Government subsidy”.
No you foolish children. In our system, the State is granted revenues by the people as a collective good. It is their property granted TO the Government not vice versa. It is up to the voters in IN to render the judgment on their Representatives at the voting booth if this was a wise move or a foolish move for the them to reduce tax burdens on Carrier in exchange for the sociatial good of keeping the 1100 jobs.
This is “Conservatives” adopting the same intellectually infantile zero sum fallacy the Left always adopts in these sort of economic debates.
What the right didn’t like about 0bama was he was an ideologue. From moving nukes out of eastern Europe to closing Republican supporting Chrysler dealerships to 0bamacare to the Iran deal. It wasn’t as important for him to look for results as it was to stick to statism.
Trump is not an ideologue but a pragmatist. He is not tied to an ideology but decides whether to do something or not based on the results.
Does anyone even know what the deal was? Trump hasn’t the power to do anything yet, he probably just explianed the pro-business and tariff legislation that will be coming up.