Politicians love businesses. But their love doesn’t take the form of letting US companies operate in an environment that will allow them to decide what is best for their business and their customers, an environment where regulations are stable and predictable rather than overbearing, in an environment where the best performers get to collect the fruits of hard labor and where the poor performers get the signal that this is not a good business model and they should focus their money on something else. Their love isn’t pro-free market.

Rather it is a love that showers already successful companies with tax dollars to help them keep their lead over competitors or uses taxpayers dollars to keep companies in business after consumers have refused to buy their products.