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Gov Says He'll Revisit Taxes: GE Tells Employees It's Looking Elsewhere
Hartford Courant ^
| June 4, 2015
| Gregory B. Hladky,Daniela Altimari
Posted on 06/04/2015 11:02:28 AM PDT by Biggirl
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To: cincinnati65
Jeff Immelt = Horace Busby Mowen
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posted on
06/04/2015 11:26:15 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
To: Steely Tom
Bill Clinton said "NO" to them too, back in 1996. Of course, he had no choice in the matter, so he made the best of it. He could have vetoed it. Obama always does.
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posted on
06/04/2015 11:32:26 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Biggirl
Hey GE, come look at South Carolina.
Join your buddies Bridgestone, Michelin, Kimberly Clarke, MTU America, BMW, Boeing, Bosch, Continental Tire, Fluor, NASCAR Speedpark, Sonoco, Adidas, Fujifilm, Kraft Foods, Nestle, BAE Systems, GlaxoSmithKline, Milliken.
Icing on the cake: we’re a right to work state.
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posted on
06/04/2015 11:35:03 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(The current Federal Government is what the Founding Fathers tried to prevent. WAKE UP!! Amendment V)
To: Night Hides Not
Does Texas (or Missouri, or South Carolina) really want the baggage that comes with GE?
I mean, their HQ is in über-Liberal Fairfield County, and their other divisions (jet engines, or am I thinking of P&W?) are from the decidely pro-union Democrat areas.
Its not like GE could just swap out those CT workers for new ones in whatever state they move to. The work they do is too skilled. So you’d be transplanting not only those workers but also their ideologies.
To: GeronL
While literally true for a number of years, Elizabeth Warren was being misleading about GE not paying federal corporate income taxes:
http://www.factcheck.org/2012/04/warren-ge-pays-no-taxes/
GE lost $32b because of the financial crisis. Its profits in the following years were offset by those losses, thereby generating no federal tax liability. Any company is eligible for this kind of tax write-off.
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posted on
06/04/2015 11:38:54 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Zhang Fei
He could have vetoed it. Obama always does. True, but as big a perverted leftist as the Stainmaker was, I don't think he has the deep seated hatred and resentment towards the country, particularly its white citizens, that the community agitator has. This asshat along with the Wookie have a chip on their shoulders the size of the Grand Canyon.
To: Biggirl
Sure. Malloy will “tweak” the newly-passed law by making the working stiffs pay more.
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posted on
06/04/2015 12:08:21 PM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
To: I want the USA back
GE needs to put its money where it’s mouth is.
Baltimore is full of unemployed youth just looking for a career.
I am sure the City Leaders would love to have them relocate to the recently rioted areas.
Well G.E. your move?
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posted on
06/04/2015 12:12:19 PM PDT
by
VRWCarea51
(The original 1998 version)
To: tanknetter
Austin sounds perfect for them...lol
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posted on
06/04/2015 12:51:40 PM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
To: Biggirl
And this is coming from GE whose CEO was ecstatic about the potential “strategic alliance” GE was establishing with the Obama Admin in 2009.
Imagine Connecticut with GE, Aetna, and the other major insurance companies moving the headquarters out of the state! I think the personal income tax in CT was only established in 1992 or so — it is now among the highest taxed states in the country and the budget is an absolute mess. Way to go, Dems! You’ve done it again!
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posted on
06/04/2015 12:56:02 PM PDT
by
ReleaseTheHounds
("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: who_would_fardels_bear
Isn't Connecticut the state that has all of the tax benefits of insurance companies and credit card companies? I believe that's Delaware.
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posted on
06/04/2015 1:00:24 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
(25 more shopping days 'til, Graybeard 58's b/day!)
To: Biggirl
It's curious how the foreign auto makers seem to set up shop in South Carolina,Georgia,Alabama,Tennessee,etc rather than Michigan,Ohio,etc.
Isn't Boeing now assembling their most exciting product,the 787,in South Carolina and not in Washington?
To: Biggirl
GE corporate offices are in Fairfield, CT just off the Merritt Parkway at the Sport Hill Road exit ... that was my exit to my home in Easton, CT. GE has a large presence in the area. A adjunct professor at Fairfield University who worked for GE taught one of my wife's post graduate classes. Purely coincidental but I ended up sitting next to him on a flight to Chicago once ... he was returning later that day as he had a class that evening. He joked as we were getting off the airplane that he would be seeing my wife before I did ... it was a two day business trip for me.
Losing GE corporate would be an economic blow to that area of CT no question.
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posted on
06/04/2015 1:23:07 PM PDT
by
BluH2o
To: Gay State Conservative
One exception:
Honda would like to have a word with you about their Marysville and East Liberty factories in Ohio. If you’re driving a Honda built in the US, there’s a good chance that it was built in the Buckeye State.
So far, they have managed to stay nonunionized despite Ohio’s lack of RTW. That might be an oddity, but their presence is not in question.
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posted on
06/04/2015 3:08:26 PM PDT
by
setha
(It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
To: Biggirl
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posted on
06/04/2015 4:10:50 PM PDT
by
rrrod
(Just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.)
To: Night Hides Not
Jeff Immelt = Horace Busby Mowen Precisely. Problem is, we have a whole corporate sector full of Mowens - and precious few Reardens in sight.
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posted on
06/05/2015 7:30:09 AM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
(Heteropatriarchal Capitalist)
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