[padre35]

Oh good, you are going to try intellectual honesty for a change.

So do tell, what matters if SKorea puts VAT taxes on US goods when they simply sidestep the US taxes you were mentioning in the first place?

[1rudeboy]

Silly me, I thought we were talking about free trade. Who knew that protectionists want to reform our corporate tax code first? Oh, wait . . . they only bring it up when their backs are to the wall.

"We need to raise taxes on our corporations! Wait, our corporations try to avoid paying taxes! That's not fair, we need to raise them ever more! But wait, foreign corporations try to avoid paying taxes! Raise theirs even more also!"

[algernonpj]

The following article is based on one of several studies about corporates taxes in the US and tax havens:

"The Government Accountability Office said 72 percent of all foreign corporations and about 57 percent of U.S. companies doing business in the United States paid no federal income taxes for at least one year between 1998 and 2005"