GOTCHA

"So, how many Wall Street and media billionaires will Mr. Trump appoint to his cabinet? He's already appointed 3 (DeVos, Mnuchin, and Ross). I'm not sure about Bannon's wealth, but he may be close, as well. My guess is that there will be at least 5 billionaires on Trump's cabinet. He's pretty much already there if you count Trump, himself. I don't think that any previous president has ever appointed a billionaire to his cabinet. (But GWB's Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was close) What's the history of how billionaires in general, and these billionaires in particular have helped middle class and poorer workers - like those who actually voted for Mr. Trump? (There are a few like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, but I don't think that Mr. T has been talking with them about cabinet positions)

As Mr. Trump exclaimed in his gilded Trump Tower office, "Gotcha!!""
VT
Trump has been too busy trying to save American jobs the Democrats are content to send to Mexico to talk to everyone, but I'm sure that when he has some spare time he would be glad to hear what Gates and Buffet think.

Half of the Carrier jobs are still going to Mexico. It's tariff time.
Carrier had begun building two plants in Mexico and one was completed so they are going to use that one for the present, but the other was only a shell, so they are not going to complete it. It may be time for tariffs, but we are going to have to wait at least until Jan. 21 to see them.

As a practical matter, while tariffs will help protect the American market from imports from Carrier's Mexico plant, that plant will be able to compete more effectively in foreign markets than Carrier's US plant, so companies that do a lot of international business may still have to move some of their manufacturing to low wage countries to be internationally competitive.


The $7 million incentive package Carrier Corp. will receive as part of a deal the company reached with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence represents a departure from how tax credits are typically used in Indiana.
It's also the kind of agreement Trump slammed on the campaign trail.
The furnace manufacturer will receive $5 million in tax credits over 10 years in exchange for keeping 1,069 jobs at its Indianapolis plant, with an average wage of $30.91 hour. The company also will receive $1 million in training grants and up to $1 million in additional tax credits based on Carrier's planned $16 million investment in the west-side factory.
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Read the story (maybe over 500 words?) -> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carrier-incentives-stir-debate-over-rewarding-offshoring/ar-AAl2egD?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
If the jobs left for Mexico, Indiana would have suffered the loss of tax revenues from these families and the businesses they frequented and an increase in social services expenses that would have been greater than the cost of keeping the jobs, so this deal serves the interests of all citizens of Indiana.
 
These rich guys could not possibly be rich because of their competence! Let's just assume they are bad!

Competent at what? Sucking up all the money they can get their greedy little hands on!

Nobody has ever made a billion dollars work, productivity or contribution to society that warrants that level of wealth. It's a 'may the best thief win' economy.
Really? They've done no work at all? They are just "greedy". They have nothing to contribute to society because you have determined that they have too high a level of wealth.

OK. You've made it clear that you have a blanket distain for the rich. Enlighten us. Who should run things?

I think that everyone should work at productive jobs. That people should get paid on par with the productive value of their work. Wealth distribution would be somewhat, but not exactly even. Everyone would be an investor - kind of like 401k plans on steroids.

A good bench mark is this:

Doctors have the highest level of education, the highest level of training and provide the most valuable service of any profession. So basically anyone who is wealthier than a doctor is a thief.
That's interesting. Now please answer my question.
 
These rich guys could not possibly be rich because of their competence! Let's just assume they are bad!

Competent at what? Sucking up all the money they can get their greedy little hands on!

Nobody has ever made a billion dollars work, productivity or contribution to society that warrants that level of wealth. It's a 'may the best thief win' economy.
Who the hell are you to decide what someone is worth? What arrogance.

Trump is choosing successful people that know how the real world works. Liberals chose government lackeys that make a living sucking off the public tit and making decisions for everybody else.

Trump is choosing exactly the kind of people he blamed for many of our problems, and exactly the kind of people he said he would drain the swamp of.
Not really. Draining the swamp did not mean excluding people with useful experience from government but to trying to reduce the movement from government jobs to lobbying jobs because the prospect of such a job might influence decisions of government political appointees. To this end, Trump is requiring all appointees to sign a pledge not to accept a lobbying job for five years after leaving office. Obama also had such a requirement for his appointee, I believe for three years, but he then granted so many exceptions the policy just disappeared. We'll have to wait to see if Trump is more successful.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/30/wall-street-basher-trump-loving-goldman-guys-for-his-team.html
 
These rich guys could not possibly be rich because of their competence! Let's just assume they are bad!

Competent at what? Sucking up all the money they can get their greedy little hands on!

Nobody has ever made a billion dollars work, productivity or contribution to society that warrants that level of wealth. It's a 'may the best thief win' economy.
Who the hell are you to decide what someone is worth? What arrogance.

Trump is choosing successful people that know how the real world works. Liberals chose government lackeys that make a living sucking off the public tit and making decisions for everybody else.

Trump is choosing exactly the kind of people he blamed for many of our problems, and exactly the kind of people he said he would drain the swamp of.
Not really. Draining the swamp did not mean excluding people with useful experience from government but to trying to reduce the movement from government jobs to lobbying jobs because the prospect of such a job might influence decisions of government political appointees. To this end, Trump is requiring all appointees to sign a pledge not to accept a lobbying job for five years after leaving office. Obama also had such a requirement for his appointee, I believe for three years, but he then granted so many exceptions the policy just disappeared. We'll have to wait to see if Trump is more successful.


So he's appointing people who have made their careers creating the swamp so that they can be the masters of the swamp for a few years before they retire.
 
"So, how many Wall Street and media billionaires will Mr. Trump appoint to his cabinet? He's already appointed 3 (DeVos, Mnuchin, and Ross). I'm not sure about Bannon's wealth, but he may be close, as well. My guess is that there will be at least 5 billionaires on Trump's cabinet. He's pretty much already there if you count Trump, himself. I don't think that any previous president has ever appointed a billionaire to his cabinet. (But GWB's Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson was close) What's the history of how billionaires in general, and these billionaires in particular have helped middle class and poorer workers - like those who actually voted for Mr. Trump? (There are a few like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, but I don't think that Mr. T has been talking with them about cabinet positions)

As Mr. Trump exclaimed in his gilded Trump Tower office, "Gotcha!!""
VT
Trump has been too busy trying to save American jobs the Democrats are content to send to Mexico to talk to everyone, but I'm sure that when he has some spare time he would be glad to hear what Gates and Buffet think.

Half of the Carrier jobs are still going to Mexico. It's tariff time.
Carrier had begun building two plants in Mexico and one was completed so they are going to use that one for the present, but the other was only a shell, so they are not going to complete it. It may be time for tariffs, but we are going to have to wait at least until Jan. 21 to see them.

As a practical matter, while tariffs will help protect the American market from imports from Carrier's Mexico plant, that plant will be able to compete more effectively in foreign markets than Carrier's US plant, so companies that do a lot of international business may still have to move some of their manufacturing to low wage countries to be internationally competitive.


The $7 million incentive package Carrier Corp. will receive as part of a deal the company reached with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence represents a departure from how tax credits are typically used in Indiana.
It's also the kind of agreement Trump slammed on the campaign trail.
The furnace manufacturer will receive $5 million in tax credits over 10 years in exchange for keeping 1,069 jobs at its Indianapolis plant, with an average wage of $30.91 hour. The company also will receive $1 million in training grants and up to $1 million in additional tax credits based on Carrier's planned $16 million investment in the west-side factory.
.
Read the story (maybe over 500 words?) -> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carrier-incentives-stir-debate-over-rewarding-offshoring/ar-AAl2egD?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
If the jobs left for Mexico, Indiana would have suffered the loss of tax revenues from these families and the businesses they frequented and an increase in social services expenses that would have been greater than the cost of keeping the jobs, so this deal serves the interests of all citizens of Indiana.

All citizens of Indiana except for the other half of those workers whose jobs are still going to Mexico. Trump said 35% tariffs for Carrier if they sent jobs to Mexico. They are still sending lots of jobs to Mexico, so.........
 
These rich guys could not possibly be rich because of their competence! Let's just assume they are bad!

Competent at what? Sucking up all the money they can get their greedy little hands on!

Nobody has ever made a billion dollars work, productivity or contribution to society that warrants that level of wealth. It's a 'may the best thief win' economy.
Who the hell are you to decide what someone is worth? What arrogance.

Trump is choosing successful people that know how the real world works. Liberals chose government lackeys that make a living sucking off the public tit and making decisions for everybody else.

Trump is choosing exactly the kind of people he blamed for many of our problems, and exactly the kind of people he said he would drain the swamp of.
Not really. Draining the swamp did not mean excluding people with useful experience from government but to trying to reduce the movement from government jobs to lobbying jobs because the prospect of such a job might influence decisions of government political appointees. To this end, Trump is requiring all appointees to sign a pledge not to accept a lobbying job for five years after leaving office. Obama also had such a requirement for his appointee, I believe for three years, but he then granted so many exceptions the policy just disappeared. We'll have to wait to see if Trump is more successful.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/30/wall-street-basher-trump-loving-goldman-guys-for-his-team.html
lol Well, Trump is also talking to Romney who trashed him during the campaign so now he is trying to unite everyone to support his agenda, however this has nothing to do with what "draining the swamp" means.
 
These rich guys could not possibly be rich because of their competence! Let's just assume they are bad!

Competent at what? Sucking up all the money they can get their greedy little hands on!

Nobody has ever made a billion dollars work, productivity or contribution to society that warrants that level of wealth. It's a 'may the best thief win' economy.
Really? They've done no work at all? They are just "greedy". They have nothing to contribute to society because you have determined that they have too high a level of wealth.

OK. You've made it clear that you have a blanket distain for the rich. Enlighten us. Who should run things?

I think that everyone should work at productive jobs. That people should get paid on par with the productive value of their work. Wealth distribution would be somewhat, but not exactly even. Everyone would be an investor - kind of like 401k plans on steroids.

A good bench mark is this:

Doctors have the highest level of education, the highest level of training and provide the most valuable service of any profession. So basically anyone who is wealthier than a doctor is a thief.
That's interesting. Now please answer my question.


Who should run things? Nobody in particular and everyone in general.
 
Trump has been too busy trying to save American jobs the Democrats are content to send to Mexico to talk to everyone, but I'm sure that when he has some spare time he would be glad to hear what Gates and Buffet think.

Half of the Carrier jobs are still going to Mexico. It's tariff time.
Carrier had begun building two plants in Mexico and one was completed so they are going to use that one for the present, but the other was only a shell, so they are not going to complete it. It may be time for tariffs, but we are going to have to wait at least until Jan. 21 to see them.

As a practical matter, while tariffs will help protect the American market from imports from Carrier's Mexico plant, that plant will be able to compete more effectively in foreign markets than Carrier's US plant, so companies that do a lot of international business may still have to move some of their manufacturing to low wage countries to be internationally competitive.


The $7 million incentive package Carrier Corp. will receive as part of a deal the company reached with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence represents a departure from how tax credits are typically used in Indiana.
It's also the kind of agreement Trump slammed on the campaign trail.
The furnace manufacturer will receive $5 million in tax credits over 10 years in exchange for keeping 1,069 jobs at its Indianapolis plant, with an average wage of $30.91 hour. The company also will receive $1 million in training grants and up to $1 million in additional tax credits based on Carrier's planned $16 million investment in the west-side factory.
.
Read the story (maybe over 500 words?) -> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carrier-incentives-stir-debate-over-rewarding-offshoring/ar-AAl2egD?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
If the jobs left for Mexico, Indiana would have suffered the loss of tax revenues from these families and the businesses they frequented and an increase in social services expenses that would have been greater than the cost of keeping the jobs, so this deal serves the interests of all citizens of Indiana.

All citizens of Indiana except for the other half of those workers whose jobs are still going to Mexico. Trump said 35% tariffs for Carrier if they sent jobs to Mexico. They are still sending lots of jobs to Mexico, so.........
A tariff is levied on imports, so once the tariff becomes law if Carrier tries to export products made in Mexico to the US, they will have to pay a 35% tariff on those products.
 
These rich guys could not possibly be rich because of their competence! Let's just assume they are bad!

Competent at what? Sucking up all the money they can get their greedy little hands on!

Nobody has ever made a billion dollars work, productivity or contribution to society that warrants that level of wealth. It's a 'may the best thief win' economy.
Who the hell are you to decide what someone is worth? What arrogance.

Trump is choosing successful people that know how the real world works. Liberals chose government lackeys that make a living sucking off the public tit and making decisions for everybody else.

Trump is choosing exactly the kind of people he blamed for many of our problems, and exactly the kind of people he said he would drain the swamp of.
Not really. Draining the swamp did not mean excluding people with useful experience from government but to trying to reduce the movement from government jobs to lobbying jobs because the prospect of such a job might influence decisions of government political appointees. To this end, Trump is requiring all appointees to sign a pledge not to accept a lobbying job for five years after leaving office. Obama also had such a requirement for his appointee, I believe for three years, but he then granted so many exceptions the policy just disappeared. We'll have to wait to see if Trump is more successful.


So he's appointing people who have made their careers creating the swamp so that they can be the masters of the swamp for a few years before they retire.
You are clearly opposed to something, but you don't seem to be clear about what it is.
 
Competent at what? Sucking up all the money they can get their greedy little hands on!

Nobody has ever made a billion dollars work, productivity or contribution to society that warrants that level of wealth. It's a 'may the best thief win' economy.
Who the hell are you to decide what someone is worth? What arrogance.

Trump is choosing successful people that know how the real world works. Liberals chose government lackeys that make a living sucking off the public tit and making decisions for everybody else.

Trump is choosing exactly the kind of people he blamed for many of our problems, and exactly the kind of people he said he would drain the swamp of.
Not really. Draining the swamp did not mean excluding people with useful experience from government but to trying to reduce the movement from government jobs to lobbying jobs because the prospect of such a job might influence decisions of government political appointees. To this end, Trump is requiring all appointees to sign a pledge not to accept a lobbying job for five years after leaving office. Obama also had such a requirement for his appointee, I believe for three years, but he then granted so many exceptions the policy just disappeared. We'll have to wait to see if Trump is more successful.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/30/wall-street-basher-trump-loving-goldman-guys-for-his-team.html
lol Well, Trump is also talking to Romney who trashed him during the campaign so now he is trying to unite everyone to support his agenda, however this has nothing to do with what "draining the swamp" means.

Everything Trump is saying and doing is opposite to what he said he would do.
 
These rich guys could not possibly be rich because of their competence! Let's just assume they are bad!

Competent at what? Sucking up all the money they can get their greedy little hands on!

Nobody has ever made a billion dollars work, productivity or contribution to society that warrants that level of wealth. It's a 'may the best thief win' economy.
Really? They've done no work at all? They are just "greedy". They have nothing to contribute to society because you have determined that they have too high a level of wealth.

OK. You've made it clear that you have a blanket distain for the rich. Enlighten us. Who should run things?

I think that everyone should work at productive jobs. That people should get paid on par with the productive value of their work. Wealth distribution would be somewhat, but not exactly even. Everyone would be an investor - kind of like 401k plans on steroids.

A good bench mark is this:

Doctors have the highest level of education, the highest level of training and provide the most valuable service of any profession. So basically anyone who is wealthier than a doctor is a thief.
That's interesting. Now please answer my question.


Who should run things? Nobody in particular and everyone in general.
So the doctor will just know when he's made enough money and distribute the excess to somebody he deems needs it? Something like that?
 
Half of the Carrier jobs are still going to Mexico. It's tariff time.
Carrier had begun building two plants in Mexico and one was completed so they are going to use that one for the present, but the other was only a shell, so they are not going to complete it. It may be time for tariffs, but we are going to have to wait at least until Jan. 21 to see them.

As a practical matter, while tariffs will help protect the American market from imports from Carrier's Mexico plant, that plant will be able to compete more effectively in foreign markets than Carrier's US plant, so companies that do a lot of international business may still have to move some of their manufacturing to low wage countries to be internationally competitive.


The $7 million incentive package Carrier Corp. will receive as part of a deal the company reached with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence represents a departure from how tax credits are typically used in Indiana.
It's also the kind of agreement Trump slammed on the campaign trail.
The furnace manufacturer will receive $5 million in tax credits over 10 years in exchange for keeping 1,069 jobs at its Indianapolis plant, with an average wage of $30.91 hour. The company also will receive $1 million in training grants and up to $1 million in additional tax credits based on Carrier's planned $16 million investment in the west-side factory.
.
Read the story (maybe over 500 words?) -> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carrier-incentives-stir-debate-over-rewarding-offshoring/ar-AAl2egD?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
If the jobs left for Mexico, Indiana would have suffered the loss of tax revenues from these families and the businesses they frequented and an increase in social services expenses that would have been greater than the cost of keeping the jobs, so this deal serves the interests of all citizens of Indiana.

All citizens of Indiana except for the other half of those workers whose jobs are still going to Mexico. Trump said 35% tariffs for Carrier if they sent jobs to Mexico. They are still sending lots of jobs to Mexico, so.........
A tariff is levied on imports, so once the tariff becomes law if Carrier tries to export products made in Mexico to the US, they will have to pay a 35% tariff on those products.

It'll never happen. Trump claims success in his Carrier dealings. He'll forget about those jobs that are still going to Mexico.
 
Who the hell are you to decide what someone is worth? What arrogance.

Trump is choosing successful people that know how the real world works. Liberals chose government lackeys that make a living sucking off the public tit and making decisions for everybody else.

Trump is choosing exactly the kind of people he blamed for many of our problems, and exactly the kind of people he said he would drain the swamp of.
Not really. Draining the swamp did not mean excluding people with useful experience from government but to trying to reduce the movement from government jobs to lobbying jobs because the prospect of such a job might influence decisions of government political appointees. To this end, Trump is requiring all appointees to sign a pledge not to accept a lobbying job for five years after leaving office. Obama also had such a requirement for his appointee, I believe for three years, but he then granted so many exceptions the policy just disappeared. We'll have to wait to see if Trump is more successful.

Wall Street basher Trump loving Goldman guys for his team
lol Well, Trump is also talking to Romney who trashed him during the campaign so now he is trying to unite everyone to support his agenda, however this has nothing to do with what "draining the swamp" means.

Everything Trump is saying and doing is opposite to what he said he would do.
In fact he is doing exactly what he said he would do.
 
Half of the Carrier jobs are still going to Mexico. It's tariff time.
Carrier had begun building two plants in Mexico and one was completed so they are going to use that one for the present, but the other was only a shell, so they are not going to complete it. It may be time for tariffs, but we are going to have to wait at least until Jan. 21 to see them.

As a practical matter, while tariffs will help protect the American market from imports from Carrier's Mexico plant, that plant will be able to compete more effectively in foreign markets than Carrier's US plant, so companies that do a lot of international business may still have to move some of their manufacturing to low wage countries to be internationally competitive.


The $7 million incentive package Carrier Corp. will receive as part of a deal the company reached with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence represents a departure from how tax credits are typically used in Indiana.
It's also the kind of agreement Trump slammed on the campaign trail.
The furnace manufacturer will receive $5 million in tax credits over 10 years in exchange for keeping 1,069 jobs at its Indianapolis plant, with an average wage of $30.91 hour. The company also will receive $1 million in training grants and up to $1 million in additional tax credits based on Carrier's planned $16 million investment in the west-side factory.
.
Read the story (maybe over 500 words?) -> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carrier-incentives-stir-debate-over-rewarding-offshoring/ar-AAl2egD?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
If the jobs left for Mexico, Indiana would have suffered the loss of tax revenues from these families and the businesses they frequented and an increase in social services expenses that would have been greater than the cost of keeping the jobs, so this deal serves the interests of all citizens of Indiana.

All citizens of Indiana except for the other half of those workers whose jobs are still going to Mexico. Trump said 35% tariffs for Carrier if they sent jobs to Mexico. They are still sending lots of jobs to Mexico, so.........
A tariff is levied on imports, so once the tariff becomes law if Carrier tries to export products made in Mexico to the US, they will have to pay a 35% tariff on those products.


Guess you don't care if our great gains in the stock markets go back to the bush markets doldrums? That 35% bs will kill our markets
 
Carrier had begun building two plants in Mexico and one was completed so they are going to use that one for the present, but the other was only a shell, so they are not going to complete it. It may be time for tariffs, but we are going to have to wait at least until Jan. 21 to see them.

As a practical matter, while tariffs will help protect the American market from imports from Carrier's Mexico plant, that plant will be able to compete more effectively in foreign markets than Carrier's US plant, so companies that do a lot of international business may still have to move some of their manufacturing to low wage countries to be internationally competitive.


The $7 million incentive package Carrier Corp. will receive as part of a deal the company reached with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence represents a departure from how tax credits are typically used in Indiana.
It's also the kind of agreement Trump slammed on the campaign trail.
The furnace manufacturer will receive $5 million in tax credits over 10 years in exchange for keeping 1,069 jobs at its Indianapolis plant, with an average wage of $30.91 hour. The company also will receive $1 million in training grants and up to $1 million in additional tax credits based on Carrier's planned $16 million investment in the west-side factory.
.
Read the story (maybe over 500 words?) -> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carrier-incentives-stir-debate-over-rewarding-offshoring/ar-AAl2egD?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
If the jobs left for Mexico, Indiana would have suffered the loss of tax revenues from these families and the businesses they frequented and an increase in social services expenses that would have been greater than the cost of keeping the jobs, so this deal serves the interests of all citizens of Indiana.

All citizens of Indiana except for the other half of those workers whose jobs are still going to Mexico. Trump said 35% tariffs for Carrier if they sent jobs to Mexico. They are still sending lots of jobs to Mexico, so.........
A tariff is levied on imports, so once the tariff becomes law if Carrier tries to export products made in Mexico to the US, they will have to pay a 35% tariff on those products.

It'll never happen. Trump claims success in his Carrier dealings. He'll forget about those jobs that are still going to Mexico.
That may be your fantasy, but he has solid support in Congress for his program to keep American jobs here in America.
 
Carrier had begun building two plants in Mexico and one was completed so they are going to use that one for the present, but the other was only a shell, so they are not going to complete it. It may be time for tariffs, but we are going to have to wait at least until Jan. 21 to see them.

As a practical matter, while tariffs will help protect the American market from imports from Carrier's Mexico plant, that plant will be able to compete more effectively in foreign markets than Carrier's US plant, so companies that do a lot of international business may still have to move some of their manufacturing to low wage countries to be internationally competitive.


The $7 million incentive package Carrier Corp. will receive as part of a deal the company reached with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence represents a departure from how tax credits are typically used in Indiana.
It's also the kind of agreement Trump slammed on the campaign trail.
The furnace manufacturer will receive $5 million in tax credits over 10 years in exchange for keeping 1,069 jobs at its Indianapolis plant, with an average wage of $30.91 hour. The company also will receive $1 million in training grants and up to $1 million in additional tax credits based on Carrier's planned $16 million investment in the west-side factory.
.
Read the story (maybe over 500 words?) -> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carrier-incentives-stir-debate-over-rewarding-offshoring/ar-AAl2egD?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
If the jobs left for Mexico, Indiana would have suffered the loss of tax revenues from these families and the businesses they frequented and an increase in social services expenses that would have been greater than the cost of keeping the jobs, so this deal serves the interests of all citizens of Indiana.

All citizens of Indiana except for the other half of those workers whose jobs are still going to Mexico. Trump said 35% tariffs for Carrier if they sent jobs to Mexico. They are still sending lots of jobs to Mexico, so.........
A tariff is levied on imports, so once the tariff becomes law if Carrier tries to export products made in Mexico to the US, they will have to pay a 35% tariff on those products.


Guess you don't care if our great gains in the stock markets go back to the bush markets doldrums? That 35% bs will kill our markets
That may be your fantasy, but I doubt you would be able to present a logical argument to support it.
 
The $7 million incentive package Carrier Corp. will receive as part of a deal the company reached with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence represents a departure from how tax credits are typically used in Indiana.
It's also the kind of agreement Trump slammed on the campaign trail.
The furnace manufacturer will receive $5 million in tax credits over 10 years in exchange for keeping 1,069 jobs at its Indianapolis plant, with an average wage of $30.91 hour. The company also will receive $1 million in training grants and up to $1 million in additional tax credits based on Carrier's planned $16 million investment in the west-side factory.
.
Read the story (maybe over 500 words?) -> http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/carrier-incentives-stir-debate-over-rewarding-offshoring/ar-AAl2egD?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp
If the jobs left for Mexico, Indiana would have suffered the loss of tax revenues from these families and the businesses they frequented and an increase in social services expenses that would have been greater than the cost of keeping the jobs, so this deal serves the interests of all citizens of Indiana.

All citizens of Indiana except for the other half of those workers whose jobs are still going to Mexico. Trump said 35% tariffs for Carrier if they sent jobs to Mexico. They are still sending lots of jobs to Mexico, so.........
A tariff is levied on imports, so once the tariff becomes law if Carrier tries to export products made in Mexico to the US, they will have to pay a 35% tariff on those products.

It'll never happen. Trump claims success in his Carrier dealings. He'll forget about those jobs that are still going to Mexico.
That may be your fantasy, but he has solid support in Congress for his program to keep American jobs here in America.


he's going to go to those top 360 or so companies in Mexico and hold a gun to their head when they're paying 4 an hour against 34 here in america ?
 

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