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Hard to swallow? Burger King may move to Canada
Associated Press ^
| Aug 25, 2014 3:33 PM EDT
| Candice Choi and Michelle Chapman
Posted on 08/25/2014 12:39:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Some Burger King customers are finding it hard to swallow that the home of the Whopper could move to Canada.
Investors seemed to welcome the announcement by Burger King late Sunday that it was in talks to buy Canadian coffee-and-doughnut chain Tim Hortons and create the worlds third-largest fast-food restaurant company. The news pushed shares of both companies up more than 20 percent.
But customers were already voicing their discontent with the 60-year-old hamburger chain because of its plans to relocate its corporate headquarters from Miami to Canada in a deal that could lower its taxes.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Canada
KEYWORDS: 3g; 3gcapital; berkshirehathaway; brazil; burgerking; lowertaxes; timhortons; warrenbuffett
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To: Olog-hai
Quick. Someone tell Chuck Schumer so he can hold a press conference to say Burger King isn’t being patriotic and isn’t willing to pay its fair share to help those in need who are less fortunate. Then he can threaten to shut down their US operations.
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posted on
08/25/2014 1:04:31 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Opinionated Blowhard
Funny how Schumer never does that every time jobs get shipped overseas.
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posted on
08/25/2014 1:05:59 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
To: Robert DeLong
To hell with BK
To: TigersEye
You mean since they introduced the gay burger?
To: Olog-hai; Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
To all- please ping me to Canadian topics.
Canada Ping!
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posted on
08/25/2014 1:14:00 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Olog-hai
I thought that BK was part of Pepsico?
To: TigersEye
Yes there is! I haven’t been in a Burger King since they introduced the gay burger. I’ll bet a lot of other people haven’t either. I think they are taking a terrible hit.
To: Ouderkirk
Up until a few years ago Timmie’s was owned by Wendy’s. Wendy’s spun it off and they moved back to Canada.
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posted on
08/25/2014 1:19:52 PM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Will steal your comments & post them on Twitter)
To: Olog-hai
Just so they ship some of those great donuts down south! Good for Burger King, surprised others aren’t doing this...I sure would if it was my business, my profits!!!
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posted on
08/25/2014 1:33:50 PM PDT
by
ThePatriotsFlag
($$$$$$$$ DEFUND OBAMA! $$$$$$$$$)
To: Olog-hai
“The Obama administration is considering executive steps it could take to de-incentivize inversions.”
At no time were tax cuts even mentioned. That would be as unthinkable to them as honestly converting to Christianity.
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posted on
08/25/2014 1:36:36 PM PDT
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: maxwellsmart_agent
You mean since they introduced the gay burger?
Yes, and about that special sauce....don't ask.
To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
The Obama administration is considering executive steps it could take to de-incentivize inversions.
"Massive butt-puckering IRS audits of major stockholders" is the chosen tactic I'm hearing.
To: Olog-hai
What will happen to Burger King University on Kendall Drive in Miami..in Dadeland?
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posted on
08/25/2014 1:59:53 PM PDT
by
philly-d-kidder
(AB-Sheen"The truth is the truth if nobody believes it,a lie is still a lie, everybody believes it")
To: RabidBartender
If we are all the same inside, does that mean we are all swimming with VD and mental illness that makes us look for sexual release with anonymous people at roadside rest stops and airport bathrooms?
Just Asking!
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posted on
08/25/2014 2:36:45 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: Olog-hai
They can have your pride whoppers.
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posted on
08/25/2014 2:37:55 PM PDT
by
DungeonMaster
(No one can come to me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.)
To: Olog-hai
Their fag burger will put them out of business.
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posted on
08/25/2014 2:46:58 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
To: Olog-hai
Works for me! Can we have our Whopper Burgers back? (This was a chain of drive in hamburger restaurants in San Antonio before Burger King came into the San Antonio market. BK bought them out or something. GREAT burgers. I liked them better- gasp- than Whataburger)
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posted on
08/25/2014 2:50:56 PM PDT
by
KGeorge
(Till we're together again, Gypsy girl. May 28, 1998- June 3, 2013)
To: Olog-hai
The funny thing is that Tim Hortons repatriated itself from Delaware to Canada in 2009 (it had been owned by Wendy’s then spun off independently again). In other words, Tim Hortons was content to be US-based...up until the Obama Administration came to power.
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posted on
08/25/2014 3:02:14 PM PDT
by
tellw
To: Squawk 8888
Another Obama refugee! Welome to Canada Burger King!
The exodus of individuals and corporations continues due to Obamacare.
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:10:19 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: Candor7
Burger King is not an American company
“In late 2010, 3G Capital of Brazil acquired a majority stake in BK in a deal valued at US$3.26 billion.”
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posted on
08/26/2014 8:15:29 AM PDT
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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