Quote:In a True Free Market economy we would base taxes on consumption and not capital investment to begin with. The reason carrier was leaving in the first place was because of onerous taxes and regulations. They already had the ability to make a product that people want like or need at a price they were willing to pay. This isn't creating a business model, this is removing a barrier, created by government, allowing the workers in the state of Indiana to compete with the potential labor force abroad.


True, in a perfect world we would see a broad based reduction in the size and scope of the government as the main driver of reducing the overhead of all businesses. At the federal level that was part of the promise, to cut taxes, allow repatriation of funds, sunset stupid federal regs etc.




In the case of GM Citicorp and the companies that you cited, you had companies who of their own bad decision making and bad deal making became grossly unprofitable. In the case of Citicorp and Leahman, they were so reckless with the financial instruments they created they mortally threatened the global financial system. That was intervening to prop up failed business models and failed cost structures. That's wholly different from creating an incentive for a company to stay when the main driver of them leaving is burdensome taxes and regulations to begin with!

So what about carriers competition, what right does the state have to make exclusive tax brackets? Where is the authority to tax one company at one rate and another company in the same industry at another rate?


This is dangerous territory if we're now setting a precedent that the federal government should negotiate taxes one in one.r remember Donald won't always be president at some point it'll be a Democrat would you still be comfortable with a Democrat deciding which companies get tax breaks and which don't?


You want carrier to stay ok make unilateral movea to roll back regulations and taxes across the board but we shouldn't bargin special deals for special people, that's not a free market.

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