[SteamShovel]

You and I will pay the taxes.

That means less money to buy Coke or other products. They are hurting themselves in the end with a slower economy.

Apparently modern corporate management really is as stupid as I thought.

[cripplecreek]

Its a global company in a global economy. You’ll buy things that have no apparent ties to Coca Cola corp but the money will still go to them. They may own things as diverse as steel mills and tuna canneries all over the world.

[grey_whiskers]

They see the end of demographic growth in the US and are trying to shift our wealth to the Third World, so that they will be able to shift their consumer base to a younger, growing population base.

They don't realize that the Third World is the way it is due to social pathologies; that the Third World (like bitter ghetto rioters) want to *destroy* the haves, not just take the wealth; and that once the West is destroyed, all of the infrastructure, rule of law, property rights, jurisprudence -- in short, all that makes modern corporations and featherbedding PC management positons possible -- will be destroyed with it.

And when the destruction is underway, and too quickly to stop or roll back, they will be just as fatuously surprised as the students at the University of California protesting the Tuition increases.

Cretins, every one.

Cheers!