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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 8:07 pm
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Huh. I thought capitalists were all about free markets and not interfering with corporations. I suppose that doesn't include bribing them.
Call it 'an incentive' all you like - it's a bribe.
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 8:41 pm
The incentives he would need to offer to Apple would make that $7 million look like a freebie.
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 8:44 pm
Hmm. I wonder what would 'incentivize' Trump to move to the US all of the factories that make the dreck he sells...
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 9:11 pm
Ssshhhh..... the 'Muricans don't like to hear you talk about their fuhrer that way.
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 10:30 pm
Disclaimer:
I get a United Technologies pension in a few years. I had no idea Carrier was part of it, and I also thought United Technologies did a far greater percentage of their business for the DoD. That's what I get for not looking at the information packets they send every autumn.
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RE: Carrier stays in US
December 1, 2016 at 10:32 pm
BTW, $7mil for ~1000 jobs sounds like a WAY better deal than the Solyndra fiasco . . .
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