I pretty much agree with Bernie's assessment. With all the people Trump is surrounding himself with in his cabinet, it pretty much signals a very pro-business executive/screw labor environment.

But, as I have previously stated, the election is over, Trump won, and it's time to put up rather that spout off. We will known within a year as to whether Trump has any real leadership ability and whether he will really pay attention to the needs of the people he pandered to and voted for him, or if he will continue to favor the millionaire's club like those he has selected for his cabinet.

Sanders does make some good points in his article but I think he just scratches the surface of the problem of what Trump is doing with Carrier and how it's going to bite a of people in the rear as his time in office begins.

First, Sanders made a factual error early in the column. Donald Trump did nothing to keep jobs in Indiana. In fact, Mike Pence did so by extending tax incentives to Carrier. 

States have provided incentives like those given to Carrier to bring business to their state, or to keep businesses in their state. And there is an argument to make that in a free and competitive marketplace, that it's a good thing for states to fight for their citizens by putting an attractive tax package to grow jobs.

Here's the thing though, and this is where Sanders is dead on....

There are millions of businesses in the country. Every one of them wants a competitive advantage. What sort of goodies are they going to bring the White House in order to get favorable tax treatment under the guise of "keeping jobs in America"?

And what about those companies that don't bow to the President?

One of the tenants of conservatism is that government shouldn't be in the business of picking winners and  losers. Carrier (and their employees) is clearly a winner here. But let's be clear that Trump by focusing the government's efforts to save certain companies is a very liberal tactic and as we go deeper into Trumponomics, there will be plenty of losers. 

So just be prepared for that.

Just wondering would it be better for the jobs to leave the country?

It's not about that, Common.  It's about the strategy to keep jobs here.  Offering Carrier 700 grand of Indiana's taxpayer money to keep half the workforce here amounts to corporate welfare.  It opens the door to other corporations doing the same thing.

Suppose you and I owned a widget manufacturing company.  All we need to do is threaten to move our operation overseas.  We cash in via holding the taxpayers of PA hostage.  I don't think that's a good idea.  Our company was successful, but you and I got greedy and decided to take advantage of a subsidy we didn't need just like Carrier did.

And somebody is going to have to share the burden of that $700 grand budgetary whole created by that loophole bribe gifted to Carrier, and who knows what other tax relief 'benefits' granted to corporations.

That burden will be inevitably end up being the shared responsibility of ordinary taxpayers.

Unless you're in the executive suite of corporate America, I'm afraid this is a losing proposition for average Americans who will see their taxes rise to close this government created corporate tax loophole bribe.

So much for the "Trickle Down" economics Bullshit Highway we've been traveling down for the last 35 years.