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Originally Posted by djplong
The flip side of that is that conservatives seem to think the same of corporations. Give them tax cuts, subsidies, build them stadiums if they're a sports team - basically a Carte Blanche to the treasury. These days it's in the name of being "job creators" but it doesn't matter if they actually create the jobs.
This is the basic problem with our government. The treasury is regarded as a honeypot for the legislooter's constituents.
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Private Corporations shouldn't be singled out for tax cuts. Industry in general should. It's unworkable to say "how many jobs will you create?". A corporation may not be able to come up with the number due to many factors; their present business health, their ability to quickly expand, their access to qualified employees, etc. Tax breaks have to be across the board and business will fill whatever vacuum is created.
Subsidies are another matter and should be scarce. Only for pressing public need (not demand) should subsidies to private interests be considered, including the endless subsidies to colleges in their endless studies of who knows what to benefit who knows who.