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Krauthammer: You can't have it your way, Obama
Amarillo.com ^ | Aug 29, 2014 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 08/31/2014 11:39:22 AM PDT by upchuck

Edited on 08/31/2014 11:40:46 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Obama administration is highly exercised about

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; inversion; krauthammer; taxloophole
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1 posted on 08/31/2014 11:39:22 AM PDT by upchuck
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To: upchuck

How do you prove motivation? Lie detectors?

Waterboarding.


2 posted on 08/31/2014 11:42:45 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: upchuck

These socialists weep at night over every dollar that escapes their grasp.
You a bet they’re working on a strategy to combat this crisis.


3 posted on 08/31/2014 11:45:17 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: upchuck

I believe the GOP needs (badly) to be the party to say enough with sending American companies overseas, and to take the lead to bring back American businesses.

This is a minority position, but growing.

Bring back US businesses.


4 posted on 08/31/2014 11:45:54 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: upchuck

No one leaves da family. Dat’s da Chicago way.


5 posted on 08/31/2014 11:46:02 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: upchuck
... the president himself issued a statement conceding that corporate tax reform — lower the rates, eliminate loopholes — is the best solution to the inversion problem.

I heard nobama's quote on the radio. I do remember him ranting about eliminating loop holes. I DO NOT remember him saying anything about lowering rates.

I heard this quote during the news, on Herman Cain's program and on Rush's program. Both Herman and Rush criticized nobama for emphasizing the wrong thing, eliminating loop holes, and for not emphasizing the right approach, lowering corporate income tax rates.

In fact, one of them, don't remember who, said that corporate rates should be zero and what a boon that would be to the US economy. Companies would be moving here to escape onerous rates at home.

6 posted on 08/31/2014 11:46:24 AM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Bring back US businesses with the tax code changed so they can compete globally.
Business should not exist just to be big government’s cash cow.


7 posted on 08/31/2014 11:48:21 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: upchuck

Corporate taxes in this country are a disgrace and anti - business.


8 posted on 08/31/2014 11:51:28 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Farmer Dean

Chuck the Schmuck file a bill to raise will raise the exit tax, um, fee (he’s in the Senate, after all. Unless John Roberts perverts the Constitution again), to 110% of the value of the company.


9 posted on 08/31/2014 12:03:25 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Farmer Dean
You a bet they’re working on a strategy to combat this crisis.

Yep. And their solution, like most central government solutions, will only make things worse. If the government forbids companies from moving overseas, new companies will just locate overseas in the first place.

This is just another variation of that old fascist policy: The beatings will continue until morale improves.

10 posted on 08/31/2014 12:13:07 PM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

BS....... we live in a global economy with laws that protect commerce and trade. To return to the isolationist ideals of nearly a hundred years ago is ludicrous.

American business is not gone, it is involved all over the world. To do as you want would bankrupt the country by destroying uncountable jobs.

A better way to raise revenue would be to remove all the welfare tax laws that protect the income of those that pay no tax at all. They have no stake in the nation, no skin in the game. Of course a still better way is to junk the tax code and start over.


11 posted on 08/31/2014 12:13:21 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: upchuck
...corporate rates should be zero and what a boon that would be to the US economy. Companies would be moving here to escape onerous rates at home.

Most people don't remember that, about 30 years ago, the US had lower corporate tax rates (and overall government expenditures) than most other countries. We were proud of how well we were doing, and recommended that other companies copy our policies. They did for corporate tax rates (although this didn't affect overall European spending), while our government greedily went in the other direction as our welfare state expanded.

12 posted on 08/31/2014 12:17:54 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: upchuck

Obama should discuss this with his buddy Warren Buffett. He’s the guy that says rich people should pay more taxes. And he’s the guy that advised Burger King in this latest inversion deal.


13 posted on 08/31/2014 12:18:57 PM PDT by Rocky (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. George Orwel)
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To: Pearls Before Swine; upchuck

minor typo: I meant “other countries” copy our policies, rather than “other companies”. Apologies for the auto-pilot typo error.


14 posted on 08/31/2014 12:21:28 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

That country of 30 years ago longer exists. It’s not coming back with these demographics.....


15 posted on 08/31/2014 12:21:47 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Bring back US businesses.

I'm all for that.
It's all about money. US businesses will return when it's advantageou$ for them to do so. That's why they left in the first place.

Am I wrong here?

16 posted on 08/31/2014 12:23:32 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: Farmer Dean
Bring back US businesses with the tax code changed so they can compete globally. Business should not exist just to be big government’s cash cow.

Amen to that.

17 posted on 08/31/2014 12:25:55 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: dainbramaged
Corporate taxes in this country are a disgrace and anti - business.

YES, they are. They are also a hallmark of the Democrats.
American voters voted in the Democrats TWICE for eight long years.

18 posted on 08/31/2014 12:28:10 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: LongWayHome

I agree, but it’s good to remember how we got here.

The corporate tax debate these days is argued on odd grounds... economic patriotism (the last resort of envious socialist scoundrels), or faux arguments of domestic fairness.


19 posted on 08/31/2014 12:40:44 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: upchuck

To a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist like Obama, every, single penny that doesn’t cross his palm is a penny wasted.

He resents like poison these businesses escaping his claws and won’t rest until they’re brought under his control, even if he has to destroy them to do it.


20 posted on 08/31/2014 12:42:08 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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