Paulo wrote:Smitty-48 wrote:The speech in Ohio, that was great, that was some MAGA shit right there, he's coming out of campaign mode and getting serious now, move over Ronald Reagan, there's a new MAGA in town, he got Carrier to stay for a $7 million dollar concession? Colour me impressed, that doesn't even meet the threshold of walking around money for the Big Gov, can't do that every time, none the less, a win's a win. Plus Mattis.
How fine it is, really? So any company can do that? I guess they will. Keep winning and who is paying for that? How nice to see how americans learned to keep jobs like we did here in Brasil 20 years ago. So bad that they keep asking for more favors until they moved to China.
A win is a win.
To a certain extent, all economic activity is incentivized, I don't support full on government paid make work, because that is just the snake eating its own tail, but where you can come in and keep a job with incentives, at a reasonable percentage, I think that's OK, the looming threat of the stick, UTX government contracts being reevaluated, must have been what Trump had in one hand, in the other, he made a reasonable concession on taxes, as a limited government conservative, I certainly do not oppose lowering taxes as an incentive, where those taxes are actually a tax on productivity, and as such, regressive.
This is a perfect example of Trump the Moderate, Big Gov to the rescue, but not by direct intervention, simply by adjusting the incentive structure. Could it be done in every case? No, but a lot more of it could be done, and if Trump goes that route, he will be popular with the masses, even if not with the elites.
