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    Stop the Donald Trump myth-making machine; the Carrier deal is the same old corporate welfare

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/…

    I'm so confused about how conservative voters/taxpayers who are against welfare/Obamacare/etc. b/c tax payers foot the bill can endorse a program where $7mm in tax payer dollars go to a program to help a multi million dollar company with executives making millions in salary all in the hopes that 1000 jobs are kept.

    These politicians are playing with taxpayer monies and providing incentives to huge companies. This appears to be a form of socialism in some way and the right rallies against similar situations when government helps people in the healthcare sector but when it comes to corporate welfare it's not perceived as wrong.

    What am I missing here? Isn't it unAmerican for the government to provide handouts to multi million dollar companies and have the tax payers foot the bill? Shouldn't that money go to Indian's infrastructure, their veterans, and their people?

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    • Yup, corporate socialism, but that doesn't matter, people lap it up. At least some are saying it's anti-capitalism.formed
    • But it's smart of him, keep that momentum going, I do think there was some brilliance there with the twitter distractions, PR, etc., it's all worked so well.formed
    • A lot of his voters actually don't do
      Twitter at all. It wasn't a factor for so many of them.      monospaced
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