Quote:I'm happy the jobs are staying here but it's the how and why that concerns me. As a libertarian/conservative it's fundamental that government should not interfere with the free market and create winners and losers. It's one thing to say across the board were reducing taxes by x amount for companies or people that meet x qualifications.


It's a completely different thing to say we are creating an exemption for this specific company in this situation, that's not free market economics.


Someone said states already do this which is fine, that's a state issue local commerce, were talking about the federal arm creating an advantage for one company over its competition as a way to keep them domestic. That's a terrible precedent to set and why conservatives don't see that baffles me?

 

You are oversimplifying this. One shoe does not fit all businesses. They need to use different tax codes and follow rules that do not apply to other types of businesses in any industry. It would not be fair to make a different set of tax rules for Walmart and Target, but what about all the smaller businesses with very few stores that are just branching out?

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