Monday, February 23, 2015

How many little guys could afford to lobby the Clinton State Department and give millions to Clinton-controlled entities? Probably close to zero.

Meet Hillary’s Welfare Queens - Daily Caller

The new welfare queens include General Electric, General Motors, Exxon-Mobil and Boeing.

This has the potential to change American politics. Corporate welfare queens are even less sympathetic than people bilking public assistance programs. They are not the result of fraud, but deliberate policy. They constitute a graver attack on the idea of fair rewards and earned success for people who work hard and play by the rules. Nobody not employed by Salon can hear a racist dog whistle in the argument that banks shouldn’t receive a bailout from middle-class taxpayers.

Done correctly, a campaign against Hillary could break the myth that there is an inherently adversarial relationship between big business and big government, with Democrats on the side of the little guy.

How many little guys could afford to lobby the Clinton State Department and give millions to Clinton-controlled entities? Probably close to zero.

A conservative critique of crony capitalism can stretch beyond esoteric issues like Ex-Im financing and the medical devices tax. When Dave Brat beat then House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the Virginia Republican primary last year, he even framed amnesty for illegal immigrants as an indirect subsidy to businesses seeking lower-wage workers (with the help of transfer payment programs that make those lower wages sustainable for the workers).

This in turn makes it more difficult to frame skepticism about amnesty and loose immigration policies more generally as anti-immigrant rather than pro-worker. For the first time since FDR built the New Deal coalition, a substantially free-market Republican Party can compete with the Democrats for the pro-worker label. KEEP READING, THERE'S MORE.