Trump's Carrier deal confuses corporate welfare with free markets

Washington Examiner ^ | 12/02/2016

[Gen.Blather]

If this is just the leading edge of a policy change to roll back taxes and reduce regulations, I am in favor. My view on taxes is, what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. If you have a tax, don’t let anybody off.

A boss once told me, the way to change a harmful rule is to force everybody to adhere to it. When adhering hurts more than changing, it will be changed. Not before.

[Texas Eagle]

Every company competing with Carrier for sales, capital and other resources, is at a disadvantage because they're paying for the favor Trump and Pence have given Carrier.

Makes sense to me. Thankfully a President-elect does not have the power of the pen.

Get to work, Paul. Make it equal across the board. Here's your chance to prove your not a left-wing hack.

[SSS Two]

Well, people didn't vote for Trump expecting free market policies. For that matter, many people voted for Trump with full knowledge he'd oppose free markets. How many people on FR liked Trump's protectionist trade policies.

Free marketeers like me didn't have a candidate in this past election.

[ZULU]

Right. This article is just so much bull and i wonder why anyone is wasting space by posting it.

[PJammers]

It’s not corporate welfare if you reduce the tax burden for all companies. I also don’t understand by reducing taxes on a business is welfare.

[stocksthatgoup]

It wasn’t Solyendra

[198ml]

Many sympathize.

[tophat9000]

How is a tax cut corporate welfare?

[armourenthusiast]

States have been giving incentives to businesses to create jobs for years.

[Amendment10]

As Trump repeatedly complained while he was campaigning, a free market does not necessarily mean fair deals, particularly when you have incompetent government “leaders” negotiating a deal.

[snarkytart]

lowering corporate taxes and regulations is against free market?

[Jim from C-Town]

Tax incentives are not welfare, a-holes. Taxes are theft, particularly when the government wastes so much of our tax money.

[PUGACHEV]

Idiots!

[tennmountainman]

No reason to fret not having a candidate in this election.

Millions of us did and stepped up to try to save this nation.

We have tried it your way for decades and it has killed off our middle class.
Time to try something different.

[Texas Eagle]

States, fine. Presidents, not fine.

I know, I know. Reagan gave Chrysler and Harley-Davidson sweetheart deals.

[ari-freedom]

It’s only welfare if you think the govt has a right to every dollar you have and allows you to keep some of it. Tax breaks are not welfare...and they were coming from Indiana. They were also out there before the deal. That was not enough

Trump made the deal by cutting regulations

[dragnet2]

What free markets?

[mewzilla]

When it’s targeted to a specific company and not a sector.

[pissant]

Pence made the $7M tax break, not Trump. Trump had no power to do so. So this stupid cretin believes that states should not give tax breaks to industries they want to attract and hold?