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To: harpseal
Even if the actual risk factor etc. is taken into consideration it's cheaper to do work in other countries because over here, the laws and lawyers sue companies to the ground and the insurance premiums to cover that costs a bit.

A tariff on all the companies would reduce the number of companies, reducing the number of jobs and this would be a greater impact than the jobs lost in this case.

Sprint's (and other co's) shares would fall because shareholders reward a company for layoffs, and penalize them if they don't squeeze the employees.
134 posted on 08/07/2003 10:31:36 AM PDT by Cronos (Bush 2004 (Reagan waz best, but Dubya's close!))
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To: Cronos
Even if the actual risk factor etc. is taken into consideration it's cheaper to do work in other countries because over here, the laws and lawyers sue companies to the ground and the insurance premiums to cover that costs a bit.

Clearly we also need to work for torty reform lower taxes and less regulation but that does nothing to change the need for tariffs.

A tariff on all the companies would reduce the number of companies, reducing the number of jobs and this would be a greater impact than the jobs lost in this case.

A tariff is a duty laid upon an imort not a a domestic company. If company wishes to purchase a product in the uSA there is no tariff. Please understand that tariffs similar in function to a sales tax they are a tax on the consumption of products produced in other nations. They are voluntarily paid in the sense that no one forces anyone to buy an offshore product.

Sprint's (and other co's) shares would fall because shareholders reward a company for layoffs, and penalize them if they don't squeeze the employees.By this definition then if a company went out of business by laying off everyone theuir share prices would rise incredibly. Would you please at least try to make some basic sense.

187 posted on 08/07/2003 11:47:06 AM PDT by harpseal (Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown)
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