Obama the village idiot

[MikeD]

Does anyone fish on this site?

Jim, your boy issued corporate welfare, this will only embolden every other corporation to threaten moving jobs to gain the same breaks. Obama didnt pick up the phone because its an insanely shortsighted economic move that wingnuts will share on facebook and feel great about. Trump promised to save the 2100 jobs that were threatened, he accomplished less than half and set a horrible precedent. Jesus, why is it so hard to see this man is a snake oil salesman. Goldman Sachs now runs your treasury. Way to drain the swamp.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by MikeD

Does anyone fish on this site?

Jim, your boy issued corporate welfare, this will only embolden every other corporation to threaten moving jobs to gain the same breaks. Obama didnt pick up the phone because its an insanely shortsighted economic move that wingnuts will share on facebook and feel great about. Trump promised to save the 2100 jobs that were threatened, he accomplished less than half and set a horrible precedent. Jesus, why is it so hard to see this man is a snake oil salesman. Goldman Sachs now runs your treasury. Way to drain the swamp.

Trump is my boy now? I doubt you'd find anyone as honestly critical of him as me.

"this will only embolden every other corporation to threaten moving jobs to gain the same breaks"

True, but MAYBE only until Trump (and the GOP congress) create a pro-business climate, whereby companies don't have the incentives to leave in the first place. If Trump gets in, and (1) cuts the corporate tax rate, and (2) imposes stiff tariffs for companies that leave, then the necessity of these incentives is reduced, correct?

That's what Trump wants to do - create an atmosphere where companies have a disincentive to leave. Apply that disincentive equally to all companies. Then, we don't need to offer tax breaks to save jobs.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by MikeD

Does anyone fish on this site?
Goldman Sachs now runs your treasury. .

(1) yeah, and the Dow is up 1,000 since election day
(2) you're working in the private sector should preclude someone from serving in the cabinet? You'd rather have a bunch of lawyers and professors who have never done anything?

I'm not sure I see it as a bad thing, that we might have a Treasury Secretary who was a successful executive at Goldman Sachs.

[detbuch]

Originally Posted by MikeD

Does anyone fish on this site?

Jim, your boy issued corporate welfare, this will only embolden every other corporation to threaten moving jobs to gain the same breaks.

And that would force the other states to lower business taxes. And that would force the Federal government to lower its taxes. And that would invite more corporations to come here.

Unfortunately, the economy would boom, some would say "overheat," which would just give the politicians the incentive to "overspend" even more. Which would cause them to blame everybody else and make it necessary to punish us with more taxes. Which, of course, would not solve the problem . . .