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former9thward

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11. They have.
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 12:51 AM
Dec 2016

George Will says Trump is a socialist.

George Will: Trump Involvement In Carrier Deal "Socialism"

GEORGE WILL: I entirely agree. So far Donald Trump's style is personal, not to say visceral. And ad hoc. And what that adds up to is a kind of use of presidential power absolutely unconstrained by law and statute and all those other niceties.

The problem is when you have, in the Carrier case, political power used to bring pressure upon a privately owned institution that has fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder value and drive them off with political pressure with making economic decisions about economic assets, you are, in effect, at the end of the day, getting the federal government involved in capital allocation. There is a name for that, it's called socialism.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/12/07/george_will_trump_involvement_in_carrier_deal_socialism.html

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