That's not letting the market decide, that's picking winners and losers!
- snoofy

Nah it's like the NFL changing the rules of the game.

Teams are still independent to play the game according to the new rules.

Solyndra investment was picking winners and losers

That's what Biden's IRA bill that trump is erasing was all about.

#9 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY A

Biden's IRA put Americans in more debt.

Its a careful balance.

So there's a way to duck the tariffs? An out?
That's not letting the market decide, that's picking winners and losers!
(And yes, I realize that's what Trump voters voted for, even if they don't.)
#4 | Posted by snoofy

Any company can duck tariffs. In what way is having regulations picking winners and losers?

Again, its like changing the rules of the game, not the players reaction to the changes.

You really should brush up on your logic, first Streaming = Broadcasting and now this. You've been gone for a time, I'll cut you some slack.

Swap tariff with "outsourcing tax" and it's a Bernie Sanders idea.

#11 | POSTED BY SITZKRIEG

The Outsourcing Prevention Act would "impose a tax on all companies that outsource jobs." The proposed tax would be equal to "the amount of savings achieved by outsourcing jobs or 35 percent of its profits, whichever is higher."

Its close, but IMO it gives incentives to companies to NOT report profits. OR spin if off in subsidiary, its all shell game.

So... acknowledging that the US is now a controlled marketplace, like the NFL, and not a free-market as Capitalism says?
#7 | POSTED BY LAMPLIGHTER

Not at all you still don't understand the metaphor. That's your malfunction.

A Free market still has rules, contracts, taxes etc, its not Yemen. Companies can choose which rules benefit them and act accordingly.

My final point will be you seem to think "one regulation" and its NOT a free market, "free markets" exist along a continuum.

Wow too bad your party is gutting the enforcement agencies who would catch and prosecute corporate malfeasance.
#15 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY FLAG DERP

You're clueless. Why do you think big oil doesn't report profits, they aren't be malfeasance, there's no incentive too. FFS

Whats to enforce? Clearly you don't understand accounting. Its not malfeasance, to spend/invest your revenue and avoid profits.

Do you know the difference between spending and investing?

I do, do you? You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

How many people were hookedup to the Internet via IRA?

This from the guy that didn't know Big Oil had government subsidies.
- Alexa

They don't. Just because you don't know what a subsidy isn't this immigrants fault, and it proves my point.

You and you fellow Lumpers live in a bubble.

Blame your education system.

They give tax breaks, as it does for all R&D, for all companies.

Find me one line item where the US government gave oil companies taxpayer dollars, like it does for agriculture.

#22 I see TruthNLies is being the racist I have claimed he was.

Which CLEARLY tells us you simply swallow whatever you hear from the party that told you the 2020 election was stolen and obama had a fake birth certificate.
- soeakslikeanidiot

I am just posting truths, I don't suck from the fire hose of Lumper BS

Besides your BS accusations, you offer no legitimate response.