Sarah Palin is criticizing President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpTrump Jr. getting 0k to speak at UNT Zuckerberg backed immigration group pushes Trump to keep DACA Trump learned from his health care fight and offered a winning tax plan MORE’s deal with Carrier, even as she is reportedly under consideration to serve as Trump's secretary of Veterans Affairs. 
 
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 In a op-ed in Young Conservatives published Friday, the former Alaska governor first expresses excitement for the Carrier employees whose jobs are staying in Indiana. 
 
 “What a relief for hundreds of workers,” she wrote. “Merry Christmas Indiana!” 
 
 But she goes onto to blast the deal as “crony capitalism" and an example of the "hallmark of corruption" and "socialism." 
 
 “When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent,” Palin wrote. “Then, special interests creep in and manipulate markets. Republicans oppose this, remember?” 
 
 “Instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is on big fail.” 
 
 Just ahead of Trump’s formal announcement of the deal at the Carrier plant in Indianapolis on Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Carrier would receive $7 million in tax breaks over 10 years in order to keep the 1,100 jobs in Indiana. 
 
 "However well meaning, burdensome federal government imposition is never the solution. Never. Not in our homes, not in our schools, not in churches, not in businesses,” Palin wrote in her op-ed. 
 
 Earlier this week, it was reported that Palin is being considered for a spot in Trump’s administration. 
 
 An aide to Palin said the former governor said “I feel as though the megaphone I have been provided can be used in a productive and positive way to help those desperately in need.” ||||| I am ecstatic for Carrier employees! Their bosses just decided to keep shop onshore. What a relief for hundreds of workers. Merry Christmas Indiana! 
 
 We don’t yet know terms of the public/private deal that was cut to make the company stay, but let’s hope every business is equally incentivized to keep Americans working in America. 
 
 Foundational to our exceptional nation’s sacred private property rights, a business must have freedom to locate where it wishes. In a free market, if a business makes a mistake (including a marketing mistake that perhaps Carrier executives made), threatening to move elsewhere claiming efficiency’s sake, then the market’s invisible hand punishes. Thankfully, that same hand rewards, based on good business decisions. 
 
 But this time-tested truth assumes we’re operating on a level playing field. 
 
 When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent. Meanwhile, the invisible hand that best orchestrates a free people’s free enterprise system gets amputated. Then, special interests creep in and manipulate markets. Republicans oppose this, remember? Instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is one big fail. 
 
 Politicians picking and choosing recipients of corporate welfare is railed against by fiscal conservatives, for it’s a hallmark of corruption. And socialism. The Obama Administration dealt in it in spades. Recall Solyndra, Stimulus boondoggles, and all their other taxpayer-subsidized anchors on our economy. A $20 trillion debt-ridden country can’t afford this sinfully stupid practice, so vigilantly guard against its continuance, or we’re doomed. 
 
 Reaganites learned it is POLICY change that changes economic trajectory. Reagan’s successes were built on establishing a fiscal framework that invigorated our entire economy, revitalized growth and investment while decreasing spending, tax rates, over-reaching regulations, unemployment, and favoritism via individual subsidies. We need Reaganites in the new Administration. 
 
 However well meaning, burdensome federal government imposition is never the solution. Never. Not in our homes, not in our schools, not in churches, not in businesses. 
 
 Gotta’ have faith the Trump team knows all this. And I’ll be the first to acknowledge concerns over a deal cut by leveraging taxpayer interests to make a manufacturer stay put are unfounded – once terms are made public. 
 
 But know that fundamentally, political intrusion using a stick or carrot to bribe or force one individual business to do what politicians insist, versus establishing policy incentivizing our ENTIRE ethical economic engine to roar back to life, isn’t the answer. Cajole only chosen ones on Main St or Wall St and watch lines stretch from Washington to Alaska full of businesses threatening to bail unless taxpayers pony up. The lines strangle competition and really, really, dispiritingly screw with workers’ lives. It’s beyond unacceptable, so let’s anticipate equal incentivizes and positive reform all across the field – to make the economy great again. 
 
 -Sarah Palin
– Donald Trump's Carrier deal is facing some harsh criticism from a surprising source: Sarah Palin. "When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent," and the free hand of the market gets "amputated," Palin writes in an op-ed for Young Conservatives. She says the free market requires that everyone be "operating on a level playing field," but Trump giving tax breaks to Carrier in exchange for keeping some jobs in Indiana appears to be an example of "special interest crony capitalism," and that's "one big fail." With the Carrier deal, it seems Trump is doling out corporate welfare based on personal whims, and that's a "hallmark of corruption. And socialism. The Obama Administration dealt in spades," Palin writes. She says this kind of deal will lead to businesses threatening to leave the US unless they too get handouts footed by taxpayers. "A $20 trillion debt-ridden country can’t afford this sinfully stupid practice," she writes. Regardless, she says we "gotta’ have faith the Trump team knows all this." The Hill notes that Palin is being considered by Trump for secretary of Veterans Affairs.