Here’s what she actually wrote, as opposed to what the SacBee wrote about what she wrote:
Gov. Sarah Palin
12:52pm December 2, 2016
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 dont yet know terms of the public/private deal that was cut to make the company stay, but lets hope every business is equally incentivized to keep Americans working in America.
Foundational to our exceptional nations 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 efficiencys sake, then the markets invisible hand punishes. Thankfully, that same hand rewards, based on good business decisions.
But this time-tested truth assumes were 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 peoples 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.
Politicians picking and choosing recipients of corporate welfare is railed against by fiscal conservatives, for its a hallmark of corruption. And socialism. The Obama Administration dealt in it in spades. Recall Solyndra, Stimulus boondoggles, and all their other taxpayer-subsidized anchors on our economy. A $20 trillion debt-ridden country cant afford this sinfully stupid practice, so vigilantly guard against its continuance, or were doomed.
Reaganites learned it is POLICY change that changes economic trajectory. Reagans successes were built on establishing a fiscal framework that invigorated our entire economy, revitalized growth and investment while decreasing spending, tax rates, over-reaching regulations, unemployment, and favoritism via individual subsidies. We need Reaganites in the new Administration.
However well meaning, burdensome federal government imposition is never the solution. Never. Not in our homes, not in our schools, not in churches, not in businesses.
Gotta have faith the Trump team knows all this. And Ill 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.
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, isnt 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. The lines strangle competition and really, really, dispiritingly screw with workers lives. Its beyond unacceptable, so lets anticipate equal incentivizes and positive reform all across the field to make the economy great again.
-Sarah Palin
Thank You,
Dear Lady.
still,(and you know how I revere Palin and always have, look at my tagline!,)I don’t see Trump showing favoritism over one company vs. another. My guess is he would do the same for any a/c company who was about to remove jobs from the U.S.Or for any company for that matter.He’s all about jobs not theory.
Hmmmmmm.
I just got to think about this.
Thanks for posting.