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Krauthammer: You can't have it your way, Obama
Amarillo.com ^ | Aug 29, 2014 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 08/31/2014 11:39:22 AM PDT by upchuck

Edited on 08/31/2014 11:40:46 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

The Obama administration is highly exercised about

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: economy; inversion; krauthammer; taxloophole
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To: upchuck

FU Nobama!

Did you itemize your taxes?

Did you claim deductions?

Does your retirement portfolio include over seas investments?

You pay the least amount of taxes under the law, as do most of us.

Blow hard.

Besides, the amount of taxes reduced through inversion is a rounding error.

This is just you demonizing business once again.

Fascist plick.


21 posted on 08/31/2014 12:49:33 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: cloudmountain

I don’t know.

I believe there is a section of people, many of whom are militantly anti-American in trade, who want to make everything in Communist China, even though China owns a majority of all of the factories, bottom line.

Those are the people I am against.

They are currently in charge, in both parties it appears.

In my opinion the GOP needs to come back to supporting Americans first.

I fear the GOP won’t. And the Democrats will, strengthened from the “globalization” of formerly American factories, then tap into American economic patriotism, and toss the “globalists” out. For real.

This will bring back American manufacturing, but my fear is it will do so, by making leftism even stronger.

This is why I say, the Republicans need very much, right now, to be for returning factories to America.

Sure we need to work at making the laws more pro-business, but we primarily need to bring businesses back to America.

America first.


22 posted on 08/31/2014 12:51:39 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: upchuck

Krauthammer:

**What is maddening is that the problem is so easily solved: tax reform that lowers the accursed corporate rate. Democrats and Republicans agree on this. After the announcement of the latest inversion, Burger King buying Tim Hortons and then moving to Canada, the president himself issued a statement conceding that corporate tax reform — lower the rates, eliminate loopholes — is the best solution to the inversion problem.**

But will it happen with Obama in office?


23 posted on 08/31/2014 12:56:14 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: bert

Maybe I don’t understand what you’re trying to say... but I think America has the right to compete for jobs as much as any other country does. Why not America? As long as we create an economic environment that grows jobs, what’s the problem with America attracting jobs and bringing them back?


24 posted on 08/31/2014 1:00:56 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them)
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To: upchuck

I love how they think of a “loophole” as some sort
of accident.

Marko.


25 posted on 08/31/2014 1:10:52 PM PDT by markoman (The man with the rubber glove was....surprisingly gentle.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Sure we need to work at making the laws more pro-business, but we primarily need to bring businesses back to America. Sure we need to work at making the laws more pro-business, but we primarily need to bring businesses back to America. America first.

How do we get business back to America without the $$green$$ "carrot"? Why would they pay standard or UNION wages when they can pay dirt-cheap wages abroad?

America first.

26 posted on 08/31/2014 1:13:18 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: virgil

there is a that vast difference in competing for jobs and creating an isolationist economy that is not competitive internally much less externally.

We have tremendous competitive strength that has our people on the commercial playing fields literally all over the world.

Given the state of rapid obsolescence, we will not bring jobs back, rather we will create new jobs making new products currently unknown. We subcontracted manufacturing abroad because it was not competitive nor economical to do otherwise.


27 posted on 08/31/2014 1:18:33 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I suspect the batsh#t crazy base of the democratic party will never allow a serious discussion of the corporate tax rate to get off the floor.


28 posted on 08/31/2014 1:18:47 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: cloudmountain

That is the big question.

That is indeed the question, I believe the GOP should be completely focused on now.

How exactly does one bring back American businesses?

We need to bring them back. I am just asking, how can we do that.

Waiting for the democrats to do something, will be too late.

How can we bring back American factories, and American employment, now before the dems start worrying about this?

How can we make it profitable, for businesses to return to America?

We need to figure that out, and we need to do that.


29 posted on 08/31/2014 1:19:29 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Farmer Dean

Strategy? I have no Strategy.


30 posted on 08/31/2014 1:42:38 PM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: TigersEye
No one leaves da family. Dat’s da Chicago way.

Just read today that those living out of the US, increasingly renouncing their US citizenship due to taxes, used to be charged $450 by the state dept for processing that act. Mullah Obama now charged $2300.

31 posted on 08/31/2014 1:55:10 PM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
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To: upchuck

There is only one business that does not try to control it’s costs and spending thereby improving shareholder value.

Yup. Governments.


32 posted on 08/31/2014 2:04:21 PM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
How can we bring back American factories, and American employment, now before the dems start worrying about this? How can we make it profitable, for businesses to return to America? We need to figure that out, and we need to do that.

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Give the businesses a break with taxes. Profit will motivate businesses. We all know that.
To give businesses a tax break we MUST elect CONSERVATIVE Republicans in our states and in both Houses of Congress.

The Democrats promise "free money" for those who won't work. There IS no such thing as "free money." It's ALWAYS on the back of the hard-working JoeSchmoeFromKokomo.
Our leaders absolutely MUST stop rewarding the lazy.

33 posted on 08/31/2014 3:16:37 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

I completely agree with you, but first we need to stop shipping US jobs overseas.

We cannot pull support from under Americans, unless we are going to provide them with a productive alternative.

Bring back US jobs. (then at the same time, reward businesses for bringing back US jobs.)

But we much bring back US jobs, at the very least at the same time. We have sent away American jobs now for over an entire generation.

Bring them back. To America.


34 posted on 08/31/2014 3:27:25 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Jobs get "shipped out" to the overseas workers BECAUSE:

1. Overseas workers work longer hours and for less money while delivering the SAME quality. They USUALLY get
a. no benefits,
b. little time off,
c. no insurance,
d. no savings plans,
e. no breaks,
f. short lunches
g. and no overtime.
h. If they complain they have no union to whine to AND get canned.
i. They have no union recourse for "unjust" firing. They have nothing. They expect nothing.

Perfect worker bees.

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2. American workers want:
a. TOO MUCH money
b. TOO MANY benefits
c. SHORTER work hours
d. SHORTER work week
e. MORE vacations
f. LONGER vacations
g. MORE triple time overtime
h. numerous breaks

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3. American workers get good retirement, sick days, injury insurance, even savings plans.

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Pure and simple, American companies CANNOT compete with the overseas companies.
So, they close.

35 posted on 08/31/2014 3:43:14 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

I strongly believe it is long, long, long past time for America’s government to start to pay attention to American workers.

But that is just me.

Bring back American jobs.


36 posted on 08/31/2014 3:46:32 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html#2013)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
I strongly believe it is long, long, long past time for America’s government to start to pay attention to American workers.
But that is just me.
Bring back American jobs.

I'm with you.
-- However, it won't happen until wages go DOWN here and unions step away from their raison d'etre.
-- It won't happen until worker benefits stop costing so much. I don't BELIEVE that will ever happen. Costs always rise.

Our own local, state and federal American governments ARE the largest employer of Americans. It's still not enough.

I don't see things changing for American companies or workers. But, that's me.

37 posted on 08/31/2014 4:06:00 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

“h. If they complain they have no union to whine to AND get canned.”

And in Singapore they might get caned, too.

sorry...


38 posted on 08/31/2014 5:16:38 PM PDT by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Farmer Dean

They are building a new Iron Curtain, to keep money where they can steal it. This wall is in cyberspace and the courts. But it’s every bit the wall the old one was.


39 posted on 08/31/2014 5:27:44 PM PDT by motor_racer (Who will bell the cat?)
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To: LongWayHome

If the whole country would just “go Ferguson” at one time then maybe we could adjust that demographic problem.


40 posted on 08/31/2014 5:38:23 PM PDT by The Duke ("Half a wit is better than none!")
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