I understand why a lot of conservatives are squeamish about the deal Donald Trump made to prevent the move of 1,000 Carrier jobs from Indiana to Mexico. We don’t like politicians intervening in business decisions. We’re not the biggest fans of special tax incentives that give one business breaks others don’t get. We tend to call that crony capitalism.
When politicians say they have no choice but to do things like this to save jobs, we usually respond by saying they should fix the bad policies that cause companies like Carrier to want to move jobs out of the country in the first place – and that will render such special interventions unnecessary.
