Trump weighs in on Carrier relocation to Mexico

RTV6.COM ^ | 13 FEBRUARY 2016 | RTV6.COM

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

INDIANAPOLIS -- Donald Trump is weighing in on the news that Carrier is moving from Indianapolis to Mexico.

1,400 workers at the heating, cooling, air conditioning, and refrigeration company got word Wednesday that the plant was being relocated to Monterrey.

[central_va]

United Technologies, the parent company of Carrier Corp, paid a tax rate closer to 12% last year on profits of over $17 billion. Less than I paid percent wise.

"U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly says the head of the Carrier Corporation could not point to one federal regulation which the company says was responsible for its decision to relocate facilities in Indianapolis and Huntington to Mexico."

[crz]

Ya..its a business decision, but eff you! You can go starve.

[dragnet2]

You don’t have to worry about that rudeboy. Very little is made in the U.S. anymore and it’s laid waste to our country. Your fatcorp friends made damn sure of that. They have a little time left to rake in their fat profits before Trumps elected. They better better enjoy it boyrude.

[pierrem15]

You can pay somewhat more for US made products; or ...

You can pay a lot more in taxes when the unemployed vote to seize your money in taxes by electing someone like Sanders.

Choose which option you prefer.

[1rudeboy]

You forgot the most likely option (if not now, soon enough): pay more for U.S. products and watch someone like Sanders get elected.

[central_va]

In a just world he would have left in an ambulance.

[1rudeboy]

Well, that’s one way of admitting that corporations won’t make profits if Trump is elected, but even I won’t go that far . . . .

[pierrem15]

What you've stated is really part of the core problem: we have a business culture that creates perverse incentives for short term gain for the managers at the long term cost of shareholders, workers and the company as a whole.

A lot of managers and executives seem to act like some strange tribe of pirates who don't give hoot if the ship sinks after they've grabbed their booty.

[dragnet2]

We love rudeboy... We make you proud yankee boy...You go buy some low taint doggy yumyums. You like. Be happy, be proud yankee.

[central_va]

We are talking about labor arbitrage across international borders. Try to keep to the subject at hand.

[yuleeyahoo]

Eliminating all foreign aid to Mexico would be a good start. Eliminating any subsidies to a Domestic based company who moves factories to Mexico would be good second step.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Yes! We’re the only major economy that tries to tax our companies world wide income.

[central_va]

Yeah income taxes are so much better than optional tariffs on imports right ?

[central_va]

United Technologies, the parent company of Carrier Corp, paid a tax rate closer to 12% last year on profits of over $17 billion. Less than I paid percent wise.

"U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly says the head of the Carrier Corporation could not point to one federal regulation which the company says was responsible for its decision to relocate facilities in Indianapolis and Huntington to Mexico."

[gg188]

That's still true as ever. Other nations via WTO agreements with the help of the US Dept of Commerce, NGOs, World Bank, etc., have walls of tariff schedules that keep US goods out completely or put a prohibitively high tariff on them.

Conversely, the WTO, NGOs, etc., and "free trade agreements" allows goods to flow freely into the US with no tariff, hence the massive trade imbalance.

There's no denying that trade agreements are designed to transfer US jobs and money, to destroy US competitiveness, and "even the playing field."

For those of you who support Ted and Heidi's TPP---all your STEM and "good jobs" will be Indians after TPP---not just a million Indians like Ted wants now. We're talking millions.

Free trade is as valid as ever. But our Globalist Elites have built a system that is the opposite of free trade. The WORDS have been co-opted, as so many of our words. Free does not mean free but the opposite when talking about trade. Learn about the WTO, study their tariff schedules, study the plethora of existing trade agreements. Look at who exercises protectionism at the expense of US workers.

You've got a lot of studying to do to learn and understand the state of global trade. After learning, then you can express an informed opinion. Most of what you need to study is freely available on the Internet. To opine without any knowledge is the biggest part of the problem with you Cruzer/Globalists here.

[Toddsterpatriot]

We've been doing it your establishment way for decades.

My way is to cut corporate taxes to 20%, maybe lower. And reduce moronic regulations too.

Your way is to punish corps and punish them again when they try to defend themselves. Your way is to punish taxpayers and punish them again when they try to defend themselves.

Mint? You need one.

[1rudeboy]

I'll post this directly to you, then, a little larger this time.

[FBRhawk]

Do we do the same for the Donald Trump Signature line clothing made in Mexico?

[central_va]

The fat boy really hammered Perot didn’t he?

[1rudeboy]

Please stay focused. A "free trade agreement," such as NAFTA, means "I tax your product 0% and you tax mine 0%." So nations with "walls of tariff schedules that keep US goods out" do not have a FTA with the United States.

China is the best example--they tariff our products and we tariff theirs. The debate is over whether our tariffs are high enough.