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originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Southern Guardian
The US has some of the highest corporate taxes in the world. It has done nothing for the poor. So how do you square that circle?
originally posted by: LightSpeedDriver
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: Southern Guardian
The US has some of the highest corporate taxes in the world. It has done nothing for the poor. So how do you square that circle?
Yet when those companies operate abroad, they pay no tax. Google, Amazon and Starbucks avoid taxes with an off-shore tax-haven patent-construction to avoid paying taxes in my native UK and The Netherlands where I now live. Luxembourg is also a popular country for tax-conscious corporations. They earn hundreds of millions in the countries in which they operate. Go globalism!
originally posted by: seasonal
It is called race to the bottom, and it will not change as our system is set up for never ending debt and we are neck deep in it ($20,000,000,000,000). In my opinion cutting taxes is irresponsible til the the US is in better financial shape. This shows us how piss poor our leadership is.
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originally posted by: VforVendettea
originally posted by: seasonal
It is called race to the bottom, and it will not change as our system is set up for never ending debt and we are neck deep in it ($20,000,000,000,000). In my opinion cutting taxes is irresponsible til the the US is in better financial shape. This shows us how piss poor our leadership is.
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Seceded from Washington DC and let them pick up the tab.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
originally posted by: introvert
You take the small bones they throw at you, claiming it is a sweet deal, and will not raise a fuss, will even defend them in fact, while they still did nothing remotely close to what you would "actually want".
Tell me how that is supposed to make any damn sense.
It's called "compromise" and, in politics, it has long been considered a dirty word that everybody wants the other side to participate in.
ETA: I will celebrate anything that directly equals me keeping more of my own earnings, period.
originally posted by: introvert
You didn't compromise. You took what you were given and were thankful for it.
...please sir, may I have another.
OK, realistically, what would you suggest?
originally posted by: introvert
a reply to: burdman30ott6
OK, realistically, what would you suggest?
I suggest we don't call it a compromise and we sure as hell don't call it a sweet deal.
We also do not celebrate a politician for doing more of the same, when his entire shtick was one of being different than the establishment.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
a reply to: vonclod
I agree. George W Bush's campaign to win the hearts and minds of the enemy was a waste of money and resources. I had no great problem with either war in theory, enter, destroy targets, claim spoils, leave. That's how war should be fought. None of this "rebuild our enemy and make them love us" ridiculousness. The point of war is twofold
1. Force a change in your enemy, not inside their heart, I honestly don't give a flip if the US is the most hated nation on Earth... as long as potential enemies view us as the wrath of God to the point where they are too petrified to act on their hatred, the peace will be kept sacrosanct.
2. Claim spoils. Be that land, resources, or in the case of Japan, decades of near fealty, spoils must be claimed or the war made no sense.