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?

I have the same problem with arrangements like this. So Carrier threatens to move 1000 jobs out of the country and gets a nice tax benefit to keep those jobs in the US. Next month a small time competitor of Carrier seeks the same tax benefits but since they only have 50 jobs they get told to sod off. Where's the competition in that?

 

I'm fine with giving tax benefits to keep industry jobs in whatever location you want, I'm not fine with with using tax benefits to essentially bribe companies to keep jobs where you want them.

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