Timothy P. Carney: President’s initiative revs up corporate welfare

President Obama is not “anti-business,” as many conservative critics charge. He’s just anti-free market. To better understand this distinction, just look at his latest initiative: trying to double U.S. exports in five years.

Obama’s National Export Initiative, embraced by the big business lobby, is a raft of subsidies, handouts and “public-private partnerships.” Obama uses the phrase “free trade” to describe this push, but there’s nothing free about corporate welfare.