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Soundwave on 02 December 2016
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LivingMetal said:
Soundwave said:

He could say straight up, keep those 2000 jobs here, or when I am in office in January, I am going to enact 35% tariffs against you. Presumably Carrier plans on staying in business past this December? But he was never going to do that, it was all talk. 

And what Obama going to do any better? What about Hillary? And let's stay on topic about the situation with Carrier.

Trump is the president-elect, this is a campaign issue for him. He's the one that made these big outlandish claims, now he can be held on the hook for delivering or not. 

This should have been an easy slam dunk for the government. 2000 piddly little jobs is nothing to Carrier's parent company, not compared to billions in defence contracts they get from the US gov't. 

And still Carrier manages to move 1000+ jobs and get a tax break on top of it, lol. Trump is the one that played up all this "I'm going to negotiate the best deals, the best". This is the best deal? Any moron could've negotiated this given the leverage here. 

What are you going to do when you have to deal with a company that has zero defence contracts with the US gov't. Maybe they'll leave 10% of the jobs? Is that a win too?