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1 posted on 02/08/2011 2:36:34 AM PST by Scanian
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Corporate profits must be 'shared with workers'

Does that calculus apply to corporate losses too?

2 posted on 02/08/2011 2:38:01 AM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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They’re already shared with workers and they’re called jobs.

They’re shared again and their called taxes.

If they’re shared again it’s called communism.


3 posted on 02/08/2011 2:41:16 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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Proof positive the lad is a Marxist - in case anyone cares or is watching and listening


4 posted on 02/08/2011 2:42:08 AM PST by shalom aleichem
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“Corporate profits must be ‘shared with workers’..”

I thought they were already doing that. I always called it a paycheck and a job?


5 posted on 02/08/2011 2:42:32 AM PST by panaxanax (*Memo to Jim DeMint: Check your mail. Your DRAFT NOTICE will be arriving soon!)
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Corporate Profits Must Be Shared With Loafers—

Fixed it.

7 posted on 02/08/2011 2:49:29 AM PST by Happy Rain ("NO! NOT NOW!!!...Oh,okay okay." - Sam Kenison's last words.)
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Um, well, what are ‘shareholders’?

If corporate profits aren't spread around enough it's because the banks and other government favored institutions own the majority of the shares. Maybe if the banks, fascist foundations, and "educational" institutions, were all in trouble and had to sell off shares there would be more people getting shares of the profits.

Alas, we'll never know because benevolent Saucer-ear keeps pumping money into the banks. Bailing them out on the mortgage derivatives was bad enough, but putting a transfusion bag the Fed keeps full in them is another.

8 posted on 02/08/2011 2:53:54 AM PST by Rashputin (Barry is totally insane and being kept medicated and on golf courses to hide the fact)
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Nothing prevents employees from owning stock in the companies that they work for.

In fact, many companies have employee stock owner benefit plans.


9 posted on 02/08/2011 2:56:54 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (My memory's not as sharp as it used to be. Also, my memory's not as sharp as it used to be.)
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If theres no profit, theres no jobs.
If they don’t share profit with shareholders, then why would anyone invest any money

So if Obama get his way of making sure all profit goes back to workers. Then what we will have is less jobs and less investment


10 posted on 02/08/2011 3:00:48 AM PST by 4rcane
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When will he appoint his “Profit Control Czar”?


11 posted on 02/08/2011 3:01:43 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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I would close the business and fire every worker first!!!


13 posted on 02/08/2011 3:10:34 AM PST by dalereed
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We need to start thinking about after Obama has been replaced by a Republican president in January 2013.

Never mind Obama.

What are WE going to do, to bring back American jobs?


16 posted on 02/08/2011 3:25:26 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (McCarthy was Right.)
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They are - in the form of new jobs, raises and benefits.

WHEN are Americans going to WAKE UP and realize we have a Marxist in the White House?


20 posted on 02/08/2011 3:34:47 AM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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What this idiot doesn't understand is that the workers did not take part in the investment risk. They were contracted to work for a certain wage and benefit package. And if the employer held up his end of the contract then that's it. End of story.

Nobody will take the risk of investing in a business if they do not think they have a chance of making a profit. In effect Obama is saying to business owners: "If you invest and lose you lose. And if you invest and win you will still lose because we in Washington will have the final say in how much, if any, you get to keep." This is like something out of Atlas Shrugged.

This kind of stupid talk can only do more damage. And if Obama tries to force this through, by executive order or some such nonsense, then a lot of businesses will simply close shop. Who knows? Maybe that's what he wants. Nobody can be this stupid.

22 posted on 02/08/2011 3:41:58 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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Andnow , I suppose, the government will propose mandating that people start businesses.


23 posted on 02/08/2011 3:42:13 AM PST by AdaGray
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Lenin would be truly proud of our punk president.


25 posted on 02/08/2011 3:43:33 AM PST by catfish1957 (Hey algore...You'll have to pry the steering wheel of my 317 HP V8 truck from my cold dead hands)
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So that means Soetoro will redistribute his millions of earnings with the people, too, right?


31 posted on 02/08/2011 3:52:13 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Is it worth noting that Obama is being misquoted on this?


32 posted on 02/08/2011 3:52:57 AM PST by AndrewB (FUBO)
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always the good commie isn’t he?


34 posted on 02/08/2011 3:57:19 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama = Epic Fail)
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Ok.. How about sharing the employers cost of say, social security and other employer tax liabilities with the employee. Since SS is broken, that should be easy, why pay into it. The truth is, it costs money to hire employees due to the expansive government. I estimate about 10 percent. So how about giving everybody a TEN percent raise by getting rid of that.


39 posted on 02/08/2011 4:17:56 AM PST by momincombatboots (In a few months I will be Ore..Gone! Look out Crater Lake, here we come!)
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Are the workers stockholders?
No! Then they have no right to share in any profits, because they having nothing at risk.


40 posted on 02/08/2011 4:21:18 AM PST by BuffaloJack (Re-Elect President Sarah Palin 2016)
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