Tax Incentives For Me, But Not For Thee

The Mackinac Center smokes out Michael Moore for taking a tax break he’s railed against.

I’m with Moore, actually, on the idea that industries should not get special tax cuts.  And I do understand that, with millions of dollars at stake, the temptation is awfully hard to resist.  But it takes a rare degree of hypocrisy to denounce people who are doing exactly what you are doing; to think that because you’re a liberal film-maker, your us of tax incentives should be immune from opprobrium.

This again highlights the problem of his Capitalism analysis.  The industries that take money from government are part of the problem.  But they’re doing what anyone would do in their situation.  The problem is the political system that constantly doles out rewards to interests, that sees fit to micromanage the economy.  The path we are on is not leading to less of that.