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Old 07-08-2014, 08:50 PM
Rupert Pupkin Rupert Pupkin is offline
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Hahahahaha

No corporation is doing jack-sh1t in "the best interest of the communities they serve" if it doesn't pad their bottom line. Wake the fuc1< up.

Subsidizing corporations through massive tax breaks is the only way the ones that are still here stay here. And most all of those are national, not international corporations, as international corporations are required to pay taxes on revenues earned outside of the country.

Again, corporate tax rates are huge, relative to the rest of the modernized world, but the massive incentives they receive typically offset those rates.

Case in point - Walgreens being urged to move to Switzerland, by shareholders, to sidestep paying taxes on revenue raised outside US borders:

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...ate-tax-burden

The great news is, that for all of these corporations fleeing the country, there are no laws in place to keep them from forming PAC's and thus influencing our lawmakers. So they can willfully leave our country, continue to do business within our borders, and pay to play just like they were still here. Only heaping more of the tax burden onto small business and what is left of the middle class.

It's like beating your head into the wall. Another thread replete with 3 pages of Red vs. Blue hur hur hur and not one scintilla of outrage at how you are continuing to get screwed by both of them equally.


Wake up.
You misunderstood me. I was simply asking if there was anything that could be done to stop companies from outsourcing. I wasn't suggesting that companies would stay here due to altruism. I was wondering if there was any way to force them, either through reward, punishment or both, to stop outsourcing.
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Old 07-08-2014, 10:46 PM
Rudeboyelvis Rudeboyelvis is offline
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You misunderstood me. I was simply asking if there was anything that could be done to stop companies from outsourcing. I wasn't suggesting that companies would stay here due to altruism. I was wondering if there was any way to force them, either through reward, punishment or both, to stop outsourcing.
No, I didn't. I was simply answering the rhetorical question you posed, though in an admittedly curt manner. My apologies.

If you'd prefer the thoroughly in depth version (which even you may find eye-opening) of where we are, where we came from to get here, and where we are going, I cannot suggest this enough:

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.p...=9780674430006

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