Agree with #1. Number #2 should be qualified: Good for Wall St and Boeing execs, at the expense of everyone else.
Then State House Rep Reuven Carlyle was the point person for negotiating WA state's $11.4b (?) tax breaks for Boeing. With non-binding terms like agreeing to create jobs. Boeing's negotiators completely lost their shit when Carlyle tried to add good government amendments like transparency (to the public) about the actual monetary value of tax breaks.
Similar to the US Sen Al Franken's inside baseball version of wrestling with corporations over the mergers of telecoms & cables. The corps demanded all, conceded nothing, had no intention of honoring their promises, completely lost their minds when Franken tried to get future promises in writing.
The USA is a Corporatocracy. Partisanship, culture wars, moral panics, food fights, etc. all serve to obscure that central fact.
Then State House Rep Reuven Carlyle was the point person for negotiating WA state's $11.4b (?) tax breaks for Boeing. With non-binding terms like agreeing to create jobs. Boeing's negotiators completely lost their shit when Carlyle tried to add good government amendments like transparency (to the public) about the actual monetary value of tax breaks.
Similar to the US Sen Al Franken's inside baseball version of wrestling with corporations over the mergers of telecoms & cables. The corps demanded all, conceded nothing, had no intention of honoring their promises, completely lost their minds when Franken tried to get future promises in writing.
The USA is a Corporatocracy. Partisanship, culture wars, moral panics, food fights, etc. all serve to obscure that central fact.