Posted on 03/25/2011 9:53:36 AM PDT by xtinct
General Electric paid no American taxes in 2010, the New York Times reports:
The company reported worldwide profits of $14.2 billion, and said $5.1 billion of the total came from its operations in the United States.
Its American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion.
That may be hard to fathom for the millions of American business owners and households now preparing their own returns, but low taxes are nothing new for G.E. The company has been cutting the percentage of its American profits paid to the Internal Revenue Service for years, resulting in a far lower rate than at most multinational companies.
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So then gun manufacturers are liable for gun crimes committed with their products?
Not at all, if a manufacturer produces a product adhering to the standard of the day and years later, another misuses that product, how can the original manufacturer be held responsible?
Yet you and the gun lawsuit originators are making that argument.
We've always had safer nuke alternatives [Thorium Reactor ], but weaponization held priority( i.e. Pak/India given nukes, "....are you kidding me, their armies don't even have uniforms that match"Greg Geraldo}
Nuke mafia? Right
Right!
Most indubitably , sir!
They've been able to insulate themselves from public scrutiny, but now the lid is off (blown off by hydrogen, ha ha, perfect metaphor, the smallest element has become their greatest downfall).
Their own ranks are jumping ship, check the text from that boss fellow in Japan.
He's now in hospital, so he'll prolly 'die".
It's very easy for bad things to happen to special people there.
Look into it, if your brave enough, or keep your head in the sand with the rest of the fowl(you'll be better protected from radiation that way, or you could take natural Kelp capsules, that's what I've started doing, as a by product , I have better circulation and many other benefits.
It's rather remarkable, the bit of good in the cloud of bad (rad).
Go on Amazon , search kelp capsules and read the comments by the customers down the bottom of each page, good stuff.
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