[stale2002]

How is it a loss for the free market?

Now Bombardier doesn't have to pay the ridiculous 300% tax. They are subject to less regulations and more free market.

[forapurpose]

The 300% tax still distorted the market by pushing Bombardier into a deal they otherwise might not have taken, into investing resources in a location (Alabama) that they might not otherwise have chosen, and by taking a competitor out of a marketplace with very high barriers to entry.