Sanders: Carrier took Trump hostage and won

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BY JESSIE HELLMANN at the Hill

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/308242-sanders-carrier-took-trump-hostage-and-won

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President-elect Donald Trump broke his campaign promises and caved into corporate greed with his deal with Carrier, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says.

Trump on Thursday will announce a deal with United Technologies, the corporation that owns Carrier, to keep nearly 1,000 jobs in Indiana. Carrier had announced in March it would shut down an Indianapolis plant and move it to Mexico.

"Just a short few months ago, Trump was pledging to force United Technologies to 'pay a damn tax.' He was insisting on very steep tariffs for companies like Carrier that left the United States and wanted to sell their foreign-made products back in the United States," Sanders said in a Washington Post op-ed.

"Instead of a damn tax, the company will be rewarded with a damn tax cut. Wow! How’s that for standing up to corporate greed? How’s that for punishing corporations that shut down in the United States and move abroad?"



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1. I don't often agree with Sanders

but he's absolutely right about this one. "The Art of the Deal" indeed. More like the art of the bribe that you make taxpayers pay for.