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US tax reform breaks global rules, EU says
DW (Deutsche Welle) ^ | 19.12.2017 | Nils Zimmermann

Posted on 12/21/2017 10:56:56 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Last week, the finance ministers of Europe's five biggest economies — Germany, France, the UK, Spain and Italy — wrote an anxious letter to their American colleague, US Treasury Secretary Stephen Mnuchin, and copied it to all senior Republican politicians in the Congress and Senate.

The letter's thrust: The draft US tax bill, if passed as written a week ago, would represent a break with global fair-taxation rules as applied to corporations, and represent a thinly disguised form of trade war.

"The United States is Europe's single most important trade and investment partner," the finance ministers wrote. "It is important that the U.S. government's rights over domestic tax policy be exercised in a way that adheres with international obligations to which it has signed-up. The inclusion of certain less conventional international tax provisions could contravene the US's double taxation treaties and may risk having a major distortive impact on international trade."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; eu; eunuchs; eurabia; euranus; eurobanking; europeanunion; eussr; fourthreich; globalists; maga; mnuchin; socialism; socialmarketeconomy; taxes; trump; trumptaxcuts; winning
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Do all five of those countries have nukes?


81 posted on 12/21/2017 1:22:44 PM PST by MarMema (I now choose to live my life as a heterosexual married woman)
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To: lapsus calami
to me the EU's bitching is proof positive that they had the Obama Regime in their fold, steadily aligning America up with Brussels - Clinton was supposed to cement the transition once and for all.

My read as well. They doth protest too much.

How close we came. How thankful I am.

82 posted on 12/21/2017 1:25:36 PM PST by MarMema (I now choose to live my life as a heterosexual married woman)
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To: MarMema

The US accidentally dropped 4 H-bombs on Spain in the 1960s but they never owned any. Germany never had any working nuclear weapons but they came close in the Nazi days.


83 posted on 12/21/2017 1:35:29 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Isn’t that strange. They would rather try to change our government than their own. Yikes.


84 posted on 12/21/2017 2:14:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

So, Ireland can have very, very low corporate tax rates (14% ???), sufficiently low to attract Apple Computer’s intellectual property, and to run up $250 billion or so of profits not taxed by the US, but WE can’t lower our rates to stop that kind of outflow?

Hey, EU, consult with your Italian compatriots to understand my position (and, likely, President Trump’s also) on this matter, to wit: BAFANGULE!!!!!!

Oh, BTW, we’ll raise our tax rates again when your send over your army and force us to do so. I understand that there are plans afoot to arm the grandmothers of all of our Girl Scouts to greet you at the beaches - so don’t expect to see Eurabia ever again.


85 posted on 12/21/2017 2:15:07 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: DoughtyOne

I suspect socialist brainwashing. The same goes for millions of US citizens.


86 posted on 12/21/2017 2:20:02 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Yes, I agree.


87 posted on 12/21/2017 2:20:36 PM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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To: ETCS; ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
"Here is a funny article from CNN, criticizing Trump"

An accounting of CNN's international income would be instructive to this discussion.

88 posted on 12/21/2017 2:29:52 PM PST by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything)
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To: All

I can’t wait to hear what words of wisdom Trump has to say about that one. LOL


89 posted on 12/21/2017 2:35:47 PM PST by Tennessee Conservative
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“The United States is Europe’s single most important trade and investment partner,” the finance ministers wrote.

As filtered through Trump’s thought: They need us. We don’t need their fancy wines and beers and cheeses and tiny cars. So we got leverage. They don’t. Time to win again.


90 posted on 12/21/2017 2:39:44 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: pepsionice

Actually, the Ford Mustang is a runaway success in Germany, being sold out and long waiting lists at dealers. It is the second best-selling sports car in Germany this year, as well as last year. For March of this year it was the #1 seller.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/08/autos/ford-mustang-sales-germany/index.html

The US steel companies are strong. They have enjoyed high profits for years, despite the recent downturn. They are returning to profitibility.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-steel-surges-7-as-better-than-expected-earnings-offset-trump-comments-2017-07-26

Sorry to burst your America-in-perpetual-decline mythos.


91 posted on 12/21/2017 2:59:32 PM PST by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: pepsionice

The Ford Mustang is also a runaway success in Australia (months of waiting lists), South Africa (waiting lists), the Middle East, China, and Europe as a whole, where it is the best selling sports car continent-wide. With over 150,000 cars sold, it is the world’s best-selling sports car. They are all exported from Michigan. Turns out the rest of the world likes a fun, hot car too. They want Americana.
https://www.motor1.com/news/146420/ford-mustang-europe-best-selling-sports-car/

https://artofgears.com/2017/04/25/ford-mustang-best-selling-sports-car-world/

http://thenewswheel.com/ford-mustang-was-the-best-selling-sports-coupe-on-planet-earth-in-2015/


92 posted on 12/21/2017 3:23:00 PM PST by Vaden (First they came for the Confederates... Next they came for Washington... Then they came...)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas


93 posted on 12/21/2017 3:25:07 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

ROTFLMAO


94 posted on 12/21/2017 3:26:51 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: MarMema
The EU also tells US companies that they allow too much free speech. Not content to foist these AH policies on Europe.

European Union Declares War on Internet Free Speech

95 posted on 12/21/2017 3:55:05 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The Nazis took the Frogs almost without firing a shot. They had the Brits by the balls...and squeezing hard. IF it had not been for the USA, they’d ALL be speaking German now. The gall of these EuroWeenie POSs to tell us what our tax code should be or not be???? FU, EuroWeenies!!!!
Well guess what? You clowns over there are being invaded by islam with your global so-called govt. elites welcoming them in by the millions. It’s an invasion that even Hitler, himself, could only dream about pulling off. He’d be grinning ear to ear while commending his generals for it. And when the islamic SHTF in your faces and you’re frantically begging to be freed from beheadings, sharia law, etc. I hope to God the good old USA just tells ya to go pack sand where the sun don’t shine.


96 posted on 12/21/2017 5:02:22 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: Mouton

LOL
Best Election Ever


97 posted on 12/21/2017 5:24:15 PM PST by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

amazing the rest of the world thinks that they should be able to dictate what U.S. tax policy is. In other words, our constitution does not apply. The rest of the world can go to hell.When the EU gets in trouble militarily the U.S. should tell them go tell someone who gives a shit.


98 posted on 12/21/2017 5:51:04 PM PST by klsparrow
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To: Vaden

The ‘base’ Mustang model, in Germany, runs at 34,000 Euro roughly (that’s $42,200 at the current rate)....which is the tax included cost. You throw in the gas consumption, and it’s special type of consumer in Germany to buy the car. It won’t be a working-class guy.

As you outlined in your comment....2nd best-selling ‘sports car’ sold. It’s a small group of German consumers who fit into the sports car enthusiasm group. As for monthly sales across all of Germany? It’s in the 750 to 800 per month.


99 posted on 12/21/2017 9:07:52 PM PST by pepsionice
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
US tax reform breaks global rules, EU says

I think we fought and won a war over that, back around 1776

100 posted on 12/21/2017 9:44:20 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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