Posted on 03/10/2016 11:37:37 AM PST by AmericanInTokyo
Donald Trump’s appeal is said to be his straight talk. But when it comes to international trade, he sounds like a hypocrite, the classic “Do what I say, not what I do” politician.
While bashing companies for investing in foreign countries, Donald Trump’s own company has shown no inclination to invest and build only in America. In fact, a significant percentage of his company’s hotels and major real estate properties are located abroad. “Mr. Trump is either inexcusably hypocritical or inexcusably ignorant of economics,” according to Donald J. Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University. “There is zero economic difference between, say, a U.S. car company’s investments abroad in factories and Mr. Trump’s own investments abroad in hotels: both are meant to improve the bottom line of companies headquartered in the U.S. by taking advantage of profitable economic opportunities outside of the U.S.”
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Truth? I haven’t seen any of your posts truthful!
http://www.bloomberg.com/infographics/2014-09-18/tax-runaways-tracking-inversions.html
April 13, 2015
Corporate Expatriates: See the Data
The roster of corporate expats includes inverted companies and former divisions that they spun off as independent entities, as well as U.S. firms that got a foreign address through a leveraged buyout or other ownership change.
Damn! Won’t these people be ticked.
Cyberonics Inc. moving from Texas to England
Wright Medical Group Inc. Tennessee to Netherlands
Steris Corp Ohio to England
Civeo Corp from Texas to Canada
Applied Materials from California to Netherlands
C&J Energy Services Ltd to Bermuda
Mylan Inc. from Pennsylvania to Netherlands
Medtronic Inc. Minnesota to Ireland
Burger King Worldwide Inc. Florida to Canada
Horizon Pharma Inc Illinois to Ireland
Theravance Biopharma from California to Cayman
Paragon Offshore Plc to England
Endo International Plc from Pennsylvania to Ireland
Tower Group International Ltd New York to Bermuda
Liberty Global Plc Colorado to England
Perrigo Co. Plc from Michigan to Ireland
Actavis Plc New Jersey to Ireland
Mallinckrodt Plc to Ireland
Allegion Plc to Ireland
Tronox Ltd. Oklahoma to Australia
Rowan Cos Plc from Texas to England
Aon Plc Illinois to England
Eaton Corp. Plc from Ohio to Ireland
Pentair Ltd to Ireland
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc California to Ireland
Stratasys Ltd Minnesota to Israel
D E Master Blenders 1753 NV to Netherlands
Alkermes Plc Massachusetts to Ireland
Trinseo SA to Luxembourg
Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc California to Canada
Altisource Portfolio Solutions to Luxembourg
Invitel Holdings A/S Washington to Denmark
Ensco Plc Texas to England
Samsonite SA Massachusetts to Luxembourg
Altisource Portfolio Solutions SA to Luxembourg
Convatec Healthcare B S.a.r.l to Luxembourg
James River Group from Virginia to Bermuda
Argo Group International Holdings Ltd Texas to Beruda
Covidien Plc to Ireland
TE Connectivity Ltd. To Switzerland
Freescale Semiconductor to Texas to Bermuda
Travelport Wordwide Ltd to Bermuda
Sensata Technologies Holding Nv to Netherlands
Lazard Ltd New York to Bermuda
Global Indemnity Plc Pennsylvania to Ireland
Michael Kors Ltd New York to Hong Kong
Nabors Industries Ltd Texas to Bermuda
Herbalife Ltd California to Cayman
Noble Corp Plc Texas to England
Weatherford International Ltd Texas to Ireland
Cooper Industries Plc Texas to Ireland
VistaPrint NV Massachusetts to Netherlands
Global Santa Fe Corp Texas to Cayman
Ingersoll-Rand Plc New Jersey to Ireland
Accenture Plc Illinois to Ireland
Foster Wheeler AG New Jersey to Switzerland
Tycom Ltd to Bermuda
APW Ltd to Bermuda
Everest Re Group Ltd New Jersey to Bermuda
Arch Capital Group Ltd Connecticut to Bermuda
Seagate Technology Plc California to Ireland
PXRE Group Ltd New Jersey Bermuda
White Mountains Insurance Group Ltd Vermont to Bermuda
Fruit of the Loom Ltd Kentucky to Cayman
Transocean Ltd Texas to Switzerland
XOMA Ltd California to Bermuda
Gold Reserve Inc Washington to Canada
Chicago Bridge and Iron Co. NV Illinois to Netherlands
Tyco International Plc New Hampshire to Ireland
Loral Space & Communication Ltd. New York to Bermuda
Triton Energy Ltd Texas to Cayman
Helen of Troy Ltd Texas to Bermuda
Core Laboratories NV Texas to Netherlands
Flextronics International Ltd California to Singapore
McDermott International Inc Louisiana to Panama
He just builds them here with imported 3rd world labor..
sounds like he runs them with the same type of labor.
sure, there is a long line of people going back to the 1980’s who are speaking out about they have been screwed by a dishonest unethical rasist misogynist Donald Trump. The man has no character whatsoever except a bad one
Oh
wait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKOQdcVoRys
That seals it! I’m voting for Marco Rubio now!!!!
making clothing in a foreign company IS manufacturing.. And Trump does that as well.
Meghan McCain- another true conservative just like her pop
there’s another endorsement to run away from
UAW is an anomaly. Half of all cars in the USA are made by non workers. 90% of all manufacturing in the USA is done by non union workers.
The Chicago Stock Exchange is being sold to the Chinese.
China’s Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co confirmed on Wednesday an unsolicited takeover bid for Terex Corp, the US crane and construction machinery maker.
General Electric selling appliance business to Chinese Haier Group, biggest appliance maker in China
Each year, companies are allowed to import 65,000 new hires from foreign countries, plus another 20,000 who have received a degree from an American university to compete with American graduates for jobs.
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has revealed the prototype that will form the basis of Lockheed Martin’s bid for the US Air Force’s T-X next generation trainer competition. Based on the T-50 family of trainer/light fighter aircraft, the company’s “T-X demonstrator aircraft”
General Motors says it will sell in the United States next year a vehicle made in China, becoming the first major US automaker to do so.
Sara Blackwell, the Florida attorney representing the former Disney workers that were replaced by foreign workers told Breitbart News Daily that there are 1,200 Americans in New York who will suffer the same fate as the Disney workers. “Right there in New York, 1,200 Americans are training their replacements” Blackwell said.
Three of communist China’s big state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are part of a bidding war underway for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, the parent group that owns iconic high-end hotel brands Sheraton, Westin, St. Regis, and W Hotels.
Fury and fear in Ohio as IT jobs go to India: IT workers are training their replacements
China-Owned Radio Stations Are Spreading Chinese Propaganda in the US
China is surreptitiously taking over U.S. radio stations.
As a result of China’s flooding the world market with cheap, state-subsidized aluminum and our president’s irrational aversion to fossil fuels, a 127-year-old American industry is in danger of disappearing. This week, the two largest primary aluminum producers in the United States announced curtailment of aluminum production at key smelters across the country. Alcoa announced that it was halting smelting operations at its Intalco Works (583 employees) and Wenatchee plants (428 employees) in Washington state, its Massena West plant in New York (500 employees) and that it was curtailing alumina refining capacity at its Point Comfort facility in Texas.
‘Unvetted foreigners’ working as U.S. baggage handlers
Ex-CIA Woolsey issues stunning warning about airport security
Last year, the Walt Disney Corp. fired 250 tech workers and required them to train their foreign replacements.Southern California Edison did the same to 500 IT workers, saving $20 million annually by paying their replacements barely half of what the fired employees earned. Fired Americans have also trained their foreign replacements at Toys R Us, New York Life, Harley-Davidson, Cargill, Pfizer, Northeast Utilities and others.
We learn about the sad closing of yet another GE plant, this one located in Waukesha, Wisconsin. They manufacture huge industrial engines there which can sell for more than a million dollars. The workers at the plant were recently informed that the facility would be closing and it – along with their jobs – would be moving to Canada.
The Shanghai-listed Yantai Xinchao Industry Co. filed a security filing over the weekend announcing it would purchase Texas oil properties for 8.3 billion yuan.
NEW DELHI: Construction of the first lot of six VH 92 Super Hawk helicopters that transport the US president has begun in India.
San Francisco’s Bay Bridge, In April 2006, a consortium involving American Bridge and Fluor won the tower contract. It was built in China to save money—a decision that carried its own costs when inspectors later found poor welding and busted bolts at key points that required fixing. Frick says the current $6.5 billion total is a rough estimate, and that it doesn’t include interest or financing costs.
American aviation giant Boeing on Friday said it plans to assemble either its Chinook heavy-lift helicopters or Apache attack choppers in India even as it gears to offer the possibility of manufacturing a fighter jet aircraft in the country.
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump bashed Boeing on Wednesday over its plans to open a new facility in China that the company’s largest union says could hurt American workers.
on top of Jenner, Beck
The author is head of National Foundation for American Policy, a lobby group disguised as a research foundation. The are for unregulated immigration to the U S by foreign workers.
http://www.vdare.com/articles/nfap-makes-their-case-for-unregulated-immigration
Look around...open your eyes...extract your head. Trump backers are the same leftist aholes that he was paling around with and donating to only four years ago.
Obviously you have been asleep the last however so many years. Why do people pay more for any “designer label” on an article of clothing that can be “knocked off” shortly after it has been seen by some sweatshop somewhere and sold at a small price. Why does China have millions of imports all over the world of FAKE products that are so close to the genuine article that it is hard to tell the difference? How many handbags are sold that look like the real designer piece as just one instance? Americans are LABEL CRAZY! WHY do we buy Articles which HAVE THE LABEL ON THE
OUTSIDE FOR ALL TO SEE? Simply because for some reason it is a “Status Symbol” to wear Gucci, Armani, Chanel, or any of the others. Do you wear shirts with an alligator embroidered on the left pocket?
True, and it is a citizens right to vote for leaders that will invoke protectionist policies including tariffs. All's fair. It is not a citizens duty to support government that puts foreign and international interest above their own.
I am sure corporations think prols having the right to vote really sucks.
You’ve need to back off. You are losing what little credibility you had.
I don’t have to look around. I certainly would never accept someone else’s opinion. I make my own decisions!
I’ll give YOU a few to think about though. How about Trump backing REAGAN and EVEN WORKING ON HIS CAMPAIGN? How about the FACT that Trump has contributed MORE to Republicans than Democrats? Seems you’re the one who needs to extract your head.
AND i would imagine I’ve been voting Republican a helluva lot longer than you have.....probably before you were born!
Uh....no. Another bald-faced lie from the Trump camp. Trump donated more to Democrats by a margin of 4 or 5 to 1. It’s on record. But nice try.
And nice (albeit asinine) try playing the ‘age card’...lol. Hilarious!
Do you know where Trump files his taxes? He also has a residence in Florida.
I'm also curious where his corporation(s) is based. Is it located in a foreign country to avoid U.S. taxes?
The liberal press could have a field day with this kind of thing - after Trump gets the nomination.
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