Posted on 12/02/2016 3:36:36 PM PST by PROCON
Sarah Palin is criticizing President-elect Donald Trump’s deal with Carrier, even as she is reportedly under consideration to serve as Trump's secretary of Veterans Affairs.
In a op-ed in Young Conservatives published Friday, the former Alaska governor first expresses excitement for the Carrier employees whose jobs are staying in Indiana. “What a relief for hundreds of workers,” she wrote. “Merry Christmas Indiana!”
But she goes onto to blast the deal as “crony capitalism" and an example of the "hallmark of corruption" and "socialism."
“When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent,” Palin wrote. “Then, special interests creep in and manipulate markets. Republicans oppose this, remember?”
“Instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is on big fail.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Like you Sarah but you are wrong on this point.
Carrier will get 7 million dollars in savings over 10 years to save 1000 plus American jobs.
That boils down to $700 an employee per year, or $2 a day or .25 cents an hour.
AT THE VERY SAME TIME... Carrier will be investing over 16 million dollars (2 TIMES AS MUCH AS THEY ARE SAVING) in the U.S. Economy.
It
Palin doesn't do enough research.
Now 1000 jobs....means 1000 (probably 2500) people going to lunch, driving to work, buying gas, buying food and clothing, paying local and state and Federal taxes.
Hard to find the loser in the mix except Mexico.
If this is true, Sarah probably won’t be getting hired. If this is her statement, Sarah may have known she would not be getting the job anyway, so like Newt, like Huckabee, she begins to speak off the cuff, uninhibited by decorum.
Hardly a precedent...These “deals” happen every day.
Guess she likes retirement, can’t really blame her but ...
either step back from the table and let someone do the job who was willing to climb into the arena or chalk your nose Sarah.
Trump intends to lower taxes for all. Patience is not a virtue on our side. Trump isn’t even officially POTUS, so it is Pence extending the tax break and all governors go out and lure businesses to their own states with numerous incentives. This is nothing new.
Chill out people and cut the crap for awhile. You may get your dream of Hillary yet!
She has lost her mind. It is the optics of the deal. You talk about choosing the wrong hill to die on. She has no clue about the fine print in the agreement. And congratulating the workers for getting to keep their job and slamming the deal that gave them back their jobs is insanity.
Even if it is crony capitalism, whatever that is, is it a greater sin than selling out the American worker?
Like you Sarah but you are wrong on this point.
Carrier will get 7 million dollars in savings over 10 years to save 1000 plus American jobs.
That boils down to $700 an employee per year, or $2 a day or .25 cents an hour.
AT THE VERY SAME TIME... Carrier will be investing over 16 million dollars (2 TIMES AS MUCH AS THEY ARE SAVING) in the U.S. Economy.
It’s a 360 win. Everyone wins.
There are many FReepers who are fans of Sara Palin. I am not one, and it’s for reasons such as this.
Ya gotta do the math.
Does she mean a precedent like cutting taxes for ALL businesses?
How about every US manufacture goes overseas to produce their products for sell back in the US? Does that make sense? Where is the line drawn to where that it becomes a national security issue, or detrimental to US consumer buying power?
If you would remember your grade school history class, it is analogous to colonies raw materials going back to England then the finished products where sold back the colonies. Akin to Mercantilism. Globalist control US trade without regard for US citizens. John Hancock may not approve Palin.
she didn’t think, she babbled
first thought.
or she was never in contention.
I would say the latter; but, ultimately it will be Trump’s business friendly tax measures that encourage similar businesses to remain here.
“Not really, I don’t think. Tax breaks for individual companies to “induce” them to do what government wants is not a “conservative” thing to do.”
Things are greatly distorted, and reversing the last decades of misgovernment may require extraordinary measures.
If we were on a level playing field to begin with, things would be different.
Sarah needs to STFU; she doesn't understand this whole deal!
We give tax abatement and incentives to attract jobs here in the State of Utah all day, every day, as well as having an attractive business climate.
As a result, Utah has been in the top 5 of all economies in the United States.
Seems to me many people do not realize this happens each and every day.
In Utah, we call it competition.
Seems to me that the State of Indiana made a decision here, to keep em.
Suppose, in his meetings with Carrier, he spelled out specifically what the new climate would look like and convinced them to hang in there.
Thus, a relaxation in the expensive regulatory climate, a planned relief in the tax law for manufacturing in the United States, coupled with the proposed costs importing their manufactured goods from factories not in the United States, amount to a quantifiable dollar incentive that all manufacturers would enjoy by not moving their factories outside the country.
Of course the MSM is going to call this a "bribe" and "Crony Capitalism," but is it, or just the pro-business policy aims of Trump's new administration?
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