So Johnson - - whose plastics firm in Oshkosh took a public grant to build a rail spur and more money in low-interest public loans - - would oppose the 515 jobs added at Bucyrus in South Milwaukee through federal and state assistance?
The truth is we live in a mixed economy, where public-private partnerships are routine and beneficial, where laws and tax codes and infrastructure spending regularly influence business decisions, and in which government assistance is far more than, as Johnson says, a matter of picking winners and losers.
Ideologues - - like Johnson - - live in a black-and-white, one-dimensional delusion, where sloganeering doesn't cut it as a public policy template.
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