Posted on 12/03/2016 3:23:37 AM PST by JediJones
I am ecstatic for Carrier employees! Their bosses just decided to keep shop onshore. What a relief for hundreds of workers. Merry Christmas Indiana!
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.
Foundational to our exceptional nation's sacred private property rights, a business must have freedom to locate where it wishes. In a free market, if a business makes a mistake (including a marketing mistake that perhaps Carrier executives made), threatening to move elsewhere claiming efficiency's sake, then the market's invisible hand punishes. Thankfully, that same hand rewards, based on good business decisions.
But this time-tested truth assumes we're operating on a level playing field.
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. 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...
Reaganites learned it is POLICY change that changes economic trajectory...We need Reaganites in the new Administration.
However well meaning, burdensome federal government imposition is never the solution. Never. Not in our homes...schools...churches...businesses...
But know that fundamentally, political intrusion using a stick or carrot to bribe or force one individual business to do what politicians insist, versus establishing policy incentivizing our ENTIRE ethical economic engine to roar back to life, isn't the answer. Cajole only chosen ones on Main St or Wall St and watch lines stretch from Washington to Alaska full of businesses threatening to bail unless taxpayers pony up...
(Excerpt) Read more at youngcons.com ...
(facepalm)
Corporations don’t pay taxes, their customers and employees do.
A simple truth that is never propagated to be understood by the populace. Sarah has the right idea about not giving in to what amounts as her view of blackmail, but just how out of balance is the desire of politicians to inflate services of a normal nature that cost a business owner so much more for the same than it does for say a homeowner and factory worker?
The problem is that they use it like a class warfare club but the only people being hit are the employees and customers who actually pay for it in the long run. Businesses are simply tax collection devices.
This article is right ideologically but wrong in terms of where we are.
We are indesperate times. America is almost destroyed economically.
Now Trump will makes intervention to bring America a back to an operating mass in its economy. This promotes a positive atmosphere for business and its associated risk taking.
So as far as ideology goes which is not far enough, the pragmatic will now jump start the nation.Tell us what to do, not what NOT to do. Policy needs to be applied. Ideas alone will not get the job done.
To the author of this far out purist piece: Attract capital with Policy? What do you think Trump is doing, playing fiddle sticks?
This will take a few years, and purists simply need to relax, and enjoy whats coming.
Sorry Sarah, you just don’t get it.
Maybe your future is in judging beauty pageants.
This is the piece FR is getting all worked up over. Geez, it’s just an opinion piece and a right one at that. And I don’t read anywhere she called the Trump/Carrier deal crony capitalism. I think that’s a conclusion liberals made and some folks here are falling for hook, line and sinker.
I’m perplexed that you should not get it.
If Trump offered Carrier targeted benefits that are not available to every corporate person, then he just became what he loathes.
Pretty sure we are talking about companies that are moving out of the country. Not all companies.
The author is Sara Palin.
You got to start somewhere.
I am perplexed in your all or nothing stance.
MAGA!
Right
But Sarah is prudent to remind new conservatives of the bedrock principles of a free republic.
And she is also prudent to remind Donald, too. Power is like heroin. You keep an eye on yer friends.and.
Go Sarah.
What Trump offered to Carrier is what I want to see offered to ALL companies. Lower taxes and less regulation.
I don't understand Palin going out on a limb here. At this point, closing that factory is a huge issue. Once a factory is closed, getting jobs back is much more difficult. She should stick to her specialties.
I don’t have time for Sarah Palin smears.....Is that you Mitt?
Democrats go in to get individual slices until they get the whole loaf.
The right demands the entire bakery on day one, and if they don’t get it, they will choose to starve rather than sully themselves with getting anything less.
And then we wonder why we have little to show in 25 years of complaining.
Trump didn’t offer them anything that wasn’t offered to every other corporation in America.
The incentives were offered by the state and those were offered early on, long before Trump entered the picture. What Trump offered is to get rid of obnoxious regulations (same thing he has been offering EVERY SINGLE COMPANY since the start of his run, and tax cuts. The same tax cuts that he has offered corporations AND the people since the start.
What Trump did was pick up the phone and work the deal. Made in America is going to be a big thing going forward, at least for the next 8 years.
Crony capitalism, the definition doesn’t fit in my book.
Great piece from Sarah.
Maybe some FReepers should read it.
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