Posted on 02/15/2009 11:55:05 AM PST by shielagolden
FREE TRADE
unconstitution ,totalitarianism, socialism,
This is Tyranny big time
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1590858026591557284&hl=en
if we don’t buy them, they will go away.
good by gm
When I look at what our tax burden was last year, I take a whole new view of the cost of our VCRs were.
I’m thinking I could have bought a lot better quality of product from my fellow citizens.
China will not pay a tax because of NAFTA
The political ramifications of Chinese penetration of this hemisphere are far more serious than any short term economic harm. When our collapse becomes obvious and we begin to disintegrate the Chinese will be in position to gain effective control of the Western USA. Gradualism works.
All fine and dandy until someone builds another mall.
Explain again why someone in Germany should pay extra for American (on an equivalent product) rather than just going to Chinese.
All fine and dandy until someone builds another mall.
Explain again why someone in Germany should pay extra for American (on an equivalent product) rather than just going to Chinese.
So I should pay extra for an vcr???
Alan Keyes is an idiot. Consumers pay the import taxes and tariffs through higher prices -- not the importers. It amazes me how many people still don't get that. It doesn't amaze me, however, that Keyes doesn't.
You didn’t pay any taxes in 2008? Wow, good for you.
The government is going to get your blood one way or another.
By forcing the government to stay within it’s means, by means of tariffs, we would be better off.
There’s no way the government could have grown to what it is today without income taxes. And now we seem to agree that’s the way to go.
Is it?
Are they better than American cars??? I wish I was sarc...Unfortunately American made cars stink. Honda and Toyota IMHO are the best.
Tariffs would be a case of charging one shop-owner a HIGHER per-square foot rate for the exact same place, simply because you bring in your product via UPS rather than Fedex.
Income taxes paid by corporations would be more akin to the rent in the mall...
Interestingly, GM - specifically Buick - is a VERY high end brand in China, held right up there with Audi and BMW. Even higher than Honda and Toyota. And Buicks sell for more in China than here in the US for the exact same model. GM makes a profit in China and pretty much all other countries, just not here...
Large U.S. Corporations Rely Heavily on Tax Havens
Washington, D.C. (Jan. 20, 2009)
By WebCPA staff
| Eighty-three of the 100 largest publicly traded U.S. corporations in terms of 2007 revenue reported having subsidiaries in jurisdictions listed as tax havens or financial privacy jurisdictions, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
Many of the companies are federal contractors. Sixty-three of the 100 largest publicly traded U.S. federal contractors in terms of fiscal year 2007 federal contract obligations reported having subsidiaries in such jurisdictions, according to the GAO.
The GAO noted that corporations have foreign subsidiaries for a variety of business reasons, including sales opportunities, natural resources, favorable labor conditions or tax laws. In some cases, they have aggressively interpreted U.S. tax law relating to foreign subsidiaries. The Treasury Department has found that some U.S. corporations have aggressively set transfer prices to move income to offshore jurisdictions to avoid U.S. taxes. Some offshore jurisdictions have no taxes or only nominal taxes, and are sometimes referred to as tax havens.
The report provided a list of the companies and the number of their foreign subsidiaries. One of them is Bank of America, which received $20 billion from the Treasury Department’s Troubled Assets Relief Program on Friday. It has 115 subsidiaries in jurisdictions listed as tax havens or financial privacy jurisdictions, including 59 in the Cayman Islands.
“The issues involved in the cross-border arena, including those involving large U.S. corporations and their foreign subsidiaries, are some of the most complex that the service confronts,” wrote Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman in a letter accompanying the report. “I have made international issues like these a top priority for the IRS, in addition to our continued efforts confronting offshore tax evasion.”
they are not
Thank you for your opinion. Like a******s, every one has one.
I don't know why you are in such a bad mood on this otherwise nice Sunday, but may I observe out that when you point you finger at someone, you have three, count them, three fingers pointing back at you. In this case, all seem in agreement that you are clueless but instead of learning by discourse you only make noise like an enraged bull. How do you expect to learn if your only tool is to drown out competing viewpoints? In this case, you are suggesting that you are smarter than out Founders. Is that your final anwser?
Agreed, I would rather buy American, but try to find American made products. Few choices most times no choice at all.
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