Here's what she really said:
I am ecstatic for Carrier employees! Their bosses just decided to keep shop onshore. What a relief for hundreds of workers. Merry
Christmas Indiana!
We don’t yet know terms of the public/private deal that was cut to make the company stay, but let’s hope every business is equally
incentivized to keep Americans working in America.
Foundational to our exceptional nation’s sacred private property rights, a business must have freedom to locate where it wishes. In a
free market, if a business makes a mistake (including a marketing
mistake that perhaps Carrier executives made), threatening to move
elsewhere claiming efficiency’s sake, then the market’s invisible hand
punishes. Thankfully, that same hand rewards, based on good business decisions.
But this time-tested truth assumes we’re operating on a level playing field.
When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair,
illogical precedent. Meanwhile, the invisible hand that best
orchestrates a free people’s free enterprise system gets amputated.
Then, special interests creep in and manipulate markets. Republicans
oppose this, remember? Instead, we support competition on a level
playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony
capitalism is one big fail.
Politicians picking and choosing recipients of corporate welfare is railed against by fiscal conservatives, for it’s a hallmark of
corruption. And socialism. The Obama Administration dealt in it in
spades. Recall Solyndra, Stimulus boondoggles, and all their other
taxpayer-subsidized anchors on our economy. A $20 trillion debt-ridden
country can’t afford this sinfully stupid practice, so vigilantly guard
against its continuance, or we’re doomed.
Reaganites learned it is POLICY change that changes economic trajectory. Reagan’s successes were built on establishing a fiscal
framework that invigorated our entire economy, revitalized growth and
investment while decreasing spending, tax rates, over-reaching
regulations, unemployment, and favoritism via individual subsidies. We
need Reaganites in the new Administration.
However well meaning, burdensome federal government imposition is never the solution. Never. Not in our homes, not in our schools, not in churches, not in businesses.
Gotta’ have faith the Trump team knows all this. And I’ll be the first to acknowledge concerns over a deal cut by leveraging taxpayer
interests to make a manufacturer stay put are unfounded – once terms are made public.
But know that fundamentally, political intrusion using a stick or carrot to bribe or force one individual business to do what politicians
insist, versus establishing policy incentivizing our ENTIRE ethical
economic engine to roar back to life, isn’t the answer. Cajole only
chosen ones on Main St or Wall St and watch lines stretch from
Washington to Alaska full of businesses threatening to bail unless
taxpayers pony up. The lines strangle competition and really, really,
dispiritingly screw with workers’ lives. It’s beyond unacceptable, so
let’s anticipate equal incentivizes and positive reform all across the
field – to make the economy great again.
-Sarah Palin