[harpseal]

Interesting. You're against subsidies for international investment but you have no problem with subsidizing "enterprise zones". Isn't this a form of picking winners and losers?

An enterprose zone as I defined it would not be a subsidy per se. It would be a place open to any American company employing Americans using American materials to produce products for sale in the USA or abroad. While personally I would prefer that we go to a no income tax economy witth only absolutely necessary regulation, I recognize that it will take time to get there from here.

Now how exactly is that in any way picking winners and losers?

[DugwayDuke]

"Now how exactly is that in any way picking winners and losers?"

Let's see. You want to give tax breaks and reduced regulation to some companies and not to others. Now, why would you do this for any other reason but to "pick winners and losers"?

Now, why would you restict these benefits to companies that "American company employing Americans using American materials"? What if a company could create more jobs if it used non-American materials?

What if the products produced by these "American companies employing Americans using American materials" are still more expensive? Haven't you used one person's tax dollars to subsidize another person? How is this "fair"?