RE: Idiots!
Can you elaborate please?
The writer is an idiot and takes us for being idiots as well. It hard to know where to start, but let's begin with the obvious. Is saving 1,000 jobs a good thing or a bad thing? Is encouraging an owner to modernize its plant a good thing or a bad thing? Is keeping those jobs and that new plant in this country a good thing or a bad thing? These are all good things, of course. But the writer wants us to believe these obviously good things are bad because "A tax break for Carrier is not laissez-faire economics. Every other company and family in Indiana has to bear a greater share of the state's tax burden. 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.".
There are so many unexamined and illogical assumptions in that argument, it is hard to know where to begin, but let's start with who says jobs fleeing to Mexico via NAFTA is a product of laissez-faire, and beside that who cares? Certainly not the workers who now have jobs, as opposed to a writer looking for any opportunity to criticize Trump, and who knows in his bones that he's far smarter than the multi-billionaire real estate developer who somehow managed to win the election from "The smartest woman on Earth".
Next, who says preserving jobs and encouraging economic development make Indiana poorer? It doesn't. It creates wealth, not diminishes it. Those 1,000 workers, are taxed, they spend their wages, buy things, stimulate demand for more products and create more wealth.
You can just go on an on, but I'm tired of writing, and you're tired of reading, so I'll just sum it up by saying once again, idiots!