{"id":2588,"date":"2016-12-06T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2588"},"modified":"2016-12-06T13:55:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T19:55:06","slug":"trump-carrier-bailout-economically-unsound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2588","title":{"rendered":"Trump Carrier Bailout \u2013 Economically Unsound"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But in the matter of industry-specific or firm-specific tax benefits of the sort extended to Carrier in Indiana, they do not have a leg to stand on. These are straight-up corporate welfare, ethically and fiscally indistinguishable from shipping containers full of $100 bills.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/442665\/trump-carrier-bailout-economically-unsound\">Trump Carrier Bailout \u2013 Economically Unsound | National Review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Carrier\u2019s accountant, any pecuniary benefit will do. So far as the bottom line is concerned, a $7 million tax credit is the same as a $7 million check or $7 million in Apple stock or $7 million in gold. It\u2019s all +$7 million on the line where you want it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But in the matter of industry-specific or firm-specific tax benefits of the sort extended to Carrier in Indiana, they do not have a leg to stand on. These are straight-up corporate welfare, ethically and fiscally indistinguishable from shipping containers full &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2588\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-2","tag-tax-code"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2589,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions\/2589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}