Posted on 06/07/2004 11:44:30 AM PDT by NormalGuy
(though higher taxes could hurt his sales volume, so he should be concerned even though he doesn't pay the tax)
see 29
#29 DOESNT ANSWER MY QUESTION.
3rd time:
So instead of fixing the tax code you'd rather that these corporations leave the US completely?
Or you'd rather they stay here and get taxed twice on foreign generated income?
Yes, but we decided you can post also.
Tell me, do you think these companies would relocate to Bermuda if the tax laws were changed so that they did not pay taxes on sales outside of the US?
Further, do you belive it is the right of government to tax income derived outside of its borders?
And lastly, do you believe it is right for tax payers to pay for your pony?
Remember when Ronald Reagan had defective software sent to the USSR and it screwed up the soviet pipelines?
It would be suuuuuper easy for the French or Chinese to put in a back door code into the passport reading. Just a simple if you see passport with the following numbers "X" overide all securtiy and let pass.
I thought US national security items had to be made in the USA?
Except that the coding for this thing is being done here, by US citizens with security clearances...
I thought US national security items had to be made in the USA?
They do. And this one is.
Could someone tell me when mind-numbing IGNORANCE became a "point of view?"
29 answers your question you just don't like the answer, unlike most freepers I actually tried with time and money to elect folks that would reform the tax code. I want EVERYONE to stay and paid, to feel the pain too, so that maybe then we can elect a tax reformer. Corporations and wealthy that flee are traitors and cowards. So that support them in thier flight (like you) are fools.
What does that have to do with this story?
Dont listen to these goofballs, Accenture is an American Company controlled by Americans.
So you are for having the same income taxed twice.
Tell me again, who is the traitor?
In our area we were the lowest Sales tax of any surrounding counties save for one and they have virtual no retail outlets so it was not going to affect us much at all.
Also had an interesting conversation with a local liberal who was purchasing carpet from our store. We had sealed the deal and were working out the schedule when we swerved onto the fact that one of our employees made a little above minimum wage (he is a great guy with a slight mental handicap very good worker just can't do much beyond menial labor).
Immediately the liberal was taking us to task and spouting off about how the minimum wage should be 3 dollars higher. I told him I whole heartedly agreed and took his receipt out of his hand and re-figured his labor with a 3 dollar raise for all the guys working on the project and handed it back to him with the updated price.
Heheh I so thouroughly enjoyed his squirming and hym-hawing especially since it was in front of my employees who just at it all up.
He finally mumbled that I shouldn't raise my prices and I told him I didn't, he did!
I see. So I trust you'll come over to my side as soon as we get the laws changed? Good!
No, what you want is someone to pay for your pony and saddle and bridle as well.
What is happening with these corps is they are "Shrugging" and I applaud their efforts! Our little corportaion does the same thing, all the Corporate officiers in our business get paid the very minimum we can get by with and take instead dividends to avoid paying FICA taxes. Our accountant has us doing some of the most lame-brained things you could ever imagine to avoid taxes but it is all legal!
If it were financially feasable we would incorporate in Timbuktwo to avoid paying more taxes that liberals in-turn dole out to every left-wing hair-brained scheme that comes down the pike.
If you had any sense you would see that staying here and paying the taxes only fuels the fire!
Cut off the money and the madness will stop.
Haha...it is sad to see just how dumb some of you are.
My, what a cogent, literate response! I suppose that you will now replicate the behavior of a certain free traitor who will remain nameless. When challenged, he began to claim all manner of advanced degrees in economics. Sadly, while acquiring his education he never learned how to use the apostrophe.
Karl Marx favored free trade. You keep interesting company.
Maybe the point of the thread is that whether we like it or not, we are in a global economy. That is a fact; not an opinion.
Given that fact what global criteria should be used? I support contracts in Iraq and anywhere and everywhere to the coalition of the willing. I support contracts to pro-freedom pro-capitalist Mexicans such as Cemex.
They should get a much higher rung on the ladder than a socialist "Airbus" or Chicom slavelabor. So I argue that nationalist criteria should be replaced with value criteria. Likewise with people.
Value a person for his value system; not for his past or present nationality, ethnicity, etc.
If you DO get the laws changed, I will expatriate myself to a freer country than the United States and take my capital--AND the taxes I pay on same--with me.
And a bunch of small business owners will be joining me.
Discover the joys of a small percentage of the tax base taking an inordinately high percentage of the tax receipts with them as they leave.
When the top 1% of all taxpayers pay 37% of the taxes, you have three choices:
1. Accept that you're getting a free ride, and get used to the idea of government of, by, and for that 1% of taxpayers;
2. Say "tax the rich even more," chase 'em away, and then wonder why the hell your taxes just tripled;
3. Say "Good grief, this is stupid, let's try reducing taxes to a sane level," and watch the economy improve.
You're going for Option #2.
Fine. Just quit posturing as a conservative.
Who is John Galt?
Why is it that the protectionists are the ones outside of a university campus who can spout Marx's words on demand?
Perchance they actually buy his brand of idiocy?
They pay more taxes here than the "all-American" Lockheed-Martin Corporation.
This means more taxes for you and I.
If taxes get high enough, maybe all those soccer moms will get a frickin' clue...
So you would have them pay higher taxes and in turn have us all pay higher prices?
Welcome to Econ 101.
Lesson one: Businesses do not pay taxes, their customers do!
Lesson two: Repeat lesson one till you get it.
as a physician i concur 100%
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