Truthfully I do not see this as true cronyism
Giving some one a tax cut is not cronyism....if it is then Trump juse made everybody his crony promising to cut taxes on the middle class and business yesterday that’s exactly the same thing....the one diffrest is a this it a targeted tax break
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Cronyism is directly giving Capital to some business directly giving business to a business forgiving tax incentives to the public to buy that business is product
But in Carriers case is not even a federal tax cut it strictly state tax cuts..
So when states like Texas or Florida give a business a tax cut to get them to move from California or New York
Are we saying Texas and Florida are being business cronies...and California the New York are showing integrity by keeping the taxes high on those businesses they’re losing?
If states can poached jobs from each other with tax breaks...states can poached jobs from Mexico with tax breaks
‘If states can poached jobs from each other with tax breaks...states can poached jobs from Mexico with tax breaks”
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That one sentence is the way I’ll explain the Carrier deal to skeptics——thanks.
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It very much depends upon whether you (generic you) are a “purist” (not meaning to label anyone, just to provide an illustration) like Mark Levin, or more practical.
In the pure sense, gov’t should not be involved with “picking winners and losers” and interfering with private business. Also, “the gov’t” in a sense is saying “Hey that factory you built in Mexico? Rent it out, burn it down, I don’t care what you do with it”. It is in effect a private condemnation in one sense.
And of course, it sets a kind of precedent, in that the habit of sucking up to government is immutable in all cultures, ours especially. In other words, I am saying, it depends how much of an absolutist you are with your terms. Levin is/was being rather critical of the deal just to be critical of something.
And...it also sets a certain precedent of threatening cos thinking about offshoring with penalties and tariffs.
$7 MM isn’t spit in the overall scheme of things. I am sure the 0bama regime has spent money like that on crony stuff like Solyndra $550 MM (and 20 or so other solar cos) and the 0bamacare website @ $670 MM and duck genital studies, not to mention getting his grandmother a pension @ $161K a year. Governments have certainly blown off money like this to get a film produced in the locale with the promise of “many more” and found themselves snaked. If 1K jobs can be saved for $7MM, I would frankly approve of that type of direct-result spending versus the sort of flaming goofball stuff spent on illegal alien resettlement, for example. I don’t find that a hard decision.
And I take your point that relieving taxes is not a bribe; but it certainly will engender others to ask and lobby for same.