Posted on 12/02/2016 7:22:39 PM PST by Mariner
Former Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who is reportedly under consideration for a spot in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, criticized Trump’s recent deal with Carrier to keep jobs in the United States.
Trump visited the Carrier plant in Indianapolis on Thursday and touted the deal during a speech after the visit in front of a Carrier banner.
Carrier will keep about 1,000 jobs in Indiana, instead of moving them to Mexico. In exchange, the state of Indiana is giving the company about $7 million in incentives. Vice president-elect Mike Pence in the current governor of Indiana.
“When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent. Meanwhile, the invisible hand that best orchestrates a free people’s free enterprise system gets amputated,” Palin wrote in an op-ed published Friday by Young Conservatives.
“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 one big fail.”
Palin, then the governor of Alaska, was on the 2008 Republican ticket with Arizona Senator John McCain. McCain and Palin lost to Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Palin was an early supporter of Trump, endorsing him in January of 2016.
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“...but let’s hope every business is equally incentivized to keep Americans working in America.”
That is still a negative statement. Hope? Did she not read Trump’s positions?
ALL businesses will benefit from the 15%
tax and regulations being cut back.
Trump isn’t in office yet. Pence is Gov. of Indiana, thus
Carrier got a deal. Until Trump is POTUS, he has no authority over other businesses in other states.
Tax shifts, really, where the higher taxes will be on the ones who abandon America, but lower taxes on the ones who don’t.
Well, he still has to get Congress to go along. If Sarah can prod them in that direction, more power of that kind to her.
I think the point is Carrier was already out the door.An immediate deal was needed. The first company to make a deal normally gets the best terms because they start the ball rolling.
Trump is dedicated to changing the business environment for all companies but that takes changing laws. It can’t happen in time for Carrier but it can for many other companies. I expect his first 100 days to see big changes in our toxic business environment.
Sarah is out of line & not looking at the big picture. I like her in so many ways but here she’s looking like a loose cannon. Perhaps she feels overlooked in terms of cabinet positions but if she is reacting on that basis it proves the correct decision was made in not including her.
True, but with the large slate of Republican Governors in place, he has a chance to influence Congress.
She is right.
Look Trump may have been trying to do the right thing, and certainly we should be happy for those who didn’t lose their jobs, but this was a bad precedent to set. It basically rewarded a company that was going to move some of its operations to another country.
Shouldn’t we instead be cutting taxes on all businesses large and small, not just ones who threaten to move their business elsewhere?
Also, it should be up to States to set their own corporate tax policies (we already have separate Federal tax law). This should not be up to the federal government (yes I realize Trump is not president yet, but he will be soon so he represents Federal largess and Federal favoritism with this move even if that was not the intent).
Her comments verge on being concern trolling... but STILL. That headline mischaracterizes her comments.
No she didn't.
We don’t yet know terms of the public/private deal that was cut to make the company stay, but let’s hope every business is equally incentivized to keep Americans working in America.(snip)
Gotta’ have faith the Trump team knows all this. And I’ll be the first to acknowledge concerns over a deal cut by leveraging taxpayer interests to make a manufacturer stay put are unfounded – once terms are made public.
What has Newt had to say?
I don’t think reading her column in its entirety that I can agree with your defense. She comes off like she is reprimanding Trump...I hope Trump’s team knows this...
Why all the talk about crony capitalism tied to the Carrier situation if she isn’t pointing a finger. I think she is off base and inappropriate.
Which hurts their competitiveness. It puts American companies at a disadvantage to companies that have lower overhead (including taxes) who then don’t have to sell at higher prices.
See what a miracle worker Trump is, he got Sarah Palin to agree with Bernie Sanders.
At least she can say she was considered for Vet.
Since Trump has nothing to offer Carrier until he is actually president this is so misdirected
if Trump reminded them that he plans on cutting corporate taxes and offer Iincentives for companies to come home , like fewer regulations, then how is that crony capitalism? It ain’t
If a state offers a company incentives for a company to stay in that state that ain’t crony capitalism either
This is so blown out of proportion
That’s what Trump is going to do....cool your jets. You have zero idea of what ztrump has or has not offered.
The one thing we no for sue this is no Elin Musk deal
No and none of us do
She gave those two wild, rambling, unbearably-shrieky speeches at the beginning of his campaign (wearing disheveled hair, zombie makeup and biker clothes at one of them) and, after those two events, he never invited her back to his dance....or as any kind of surrogate for him.
I wish her well, but she's somewhat irrelevant now, except perhaps for making minor news here and there in the future by assuming some kind of gadfly role poking at the new administration.
Leni
That’s what Trump is going to do
He saw people likely to lose their jobs before the holidays. Trump did what no one else would do....he went to carrier and told them what was to come if they would reconsider....and what would come if they didn’t.
Not if she has no clue as to what the deal was or wasnt
Sorry but I don’t agree. No mistake was made by Trump.
On the microcosm large companies know they have leverage because of the taxes they will pay and that those taxes are a large part of some towns budgets. So the companies shop around for deals and the town that has the best package for road access, services and tax rebate gets the business. This is the same thing writ large. That’s why we elected Trump; he knows how to make deals. Deals that benefit America like this one.
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