Carrier just showed corporations how to beat Donald Trump

[bunchanumbers]

TheLegendaryWolf said:

bunchanumbers said:

It shouldn't be up to any president to be trying to interfere with private businesses. Will Trump be doing this after his inauguration? Is he supposed to swoop in like a tangerine batman and stop the evil company from protecting their interests? Its ridiculous. He's supposed to be managing the economy in a broad way. Not doing direct interventions with individual companies.

If he really wants to save jobs he should be doing it through his policy. What he is doing now is trying to stop a dam from breaking by sticking his finger in the crack.

Well we'll have to see what he ends up doing once he is seated president as he did mention a 35% tax tariff for companies shipping jobs oversees and selling the produced goods on US soil. This Carrier Deal could just be some "publicity stunt" to show off Trump's promise but it doesn't change the fact that jobs were actually saved. Better to save some jobs than no jobs.

It was a publicity stunt. And a bad one. He just showed that any company big enough could start talking about leaving and Trump will swoop in wielding tax breaks and incentives to not go. Its a bad precedent and could end up leading to future disasters all to appear like he is a hero of the little man. Those 700 jobs? Good for them. I'm sure the other 1000-1300 people wish they were among the 700. But he could have just endangered thousands of other jobs that were not threatened before.