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Why are big, global U.S. corporations so unpatriotic? After all, they were created in the U.S.A., rose to immense profit because of the toil of American workers, are bailed out by American taxpayers whenever theyre in trouble, and are safeguarded abroad by the U.S. military.
Yet these corporate goliaths work their tax lawyers overtime to escape U.S. taxes. Many pay less than you do in federal income taxes. Imagine corporations, like General Electric, have not paid federal income taxes on U.S. profits for years.
Some of you on this forum might have to choose between your two passions - patriotism and capitalism - after reading this excellent article by Ralph Nader.
Why are big, global U.S. corporations so unpatriotic? After all, they were created in the U.S.A., rose to immense profit because of the toil of American workers, are bailed out by American taxpayers whenever theyre in trouble, and are safeguarded abroad by the U.S. military.
Yet these corporate goliaths work their tax lawyers overtime to escape U.S. taxes. Many pay less than you do in federal income taxes. Imagine corporations, like General Electric, have not paid federal income taxes on U.S. profits for years.
The Age of Corporate Treason » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
When the taxes get so large they are confiscatory and harmful, it is not treason to oppose them or avoid them.
At one time it was treason to deny the King first night rights in a marriage.
When the taxes get so large they are confiscatory and harmful, it is not treason to oppose them or avoid them.
At one time it was treason to deny the King first night rights in a marriage.
These are some valid points but it calls into question, the size of projects that can be pulled off. The pure brand of capitalism in which a miscalculation results in bankruptcy would preclude the creation of anything as complex as an MRI, or jet fighter, or commercial jet, or mega-ship... And without the initial government sponsored R&D efforts, the basic technologies for these things wouldn't exist anyway.
These are some valid points but it calls into question, the size of projects that can be pulled off. The pure brand of capitalism in which a miscalculation results in bankruptcy would preclude the creation of anything as complex as an MRI, or jet fighter, or commercial jet, or mega-ship... And without the initial government sponsored R&D efforts, the basic technologies for these things wouldn't exist anyway.
Pure conjecture.
When the taxes get so large they are confiscatory and harmful, it is not treason to oppose them or avoid them.
At one time it was treason to deny the King first night rights in a marriage.
Taxes aside, you don't think that American corporations have an obligation to keep their workforce in America?
These are some valid points but it calls into question, the size of projects that can be pulled off. The pure brand of capitalism in which a miscalculation results in bankruptcy would preclude the creation of anything as complex as an MRI, or jet fighter, or commercial jet, or mega-ship... And without the initial government sponsored R&D efforts, the basic technologies for these things wouldn't exist anyway.
Pure conjecture.
Based on almost a quarter century of engineering experience.
When the taxes get so large they are confiscatory and harmful, it is not treason to oppose them or avoid them.
At one time it was treason to deny the King first night rights in a marriage.
Taxes aside, you don't think that American corporations have an obligation to keep their workforce in America?
The only obligation any corporation has is to its customers, geography notwithstanding.
When the taxes get so large they are confiscatory and harmful, it is not treason to oppose them or avoid them.
At one time it was treason to deny the King first night rights in a marriage.
Taxes aside, you don't think that American corporations have an obligation to keep their workforce in America?
Corporations are not "patriotic". People are patriotic. Corporations are vehicles for making money for their owners. Nothing more than that.
And it is the Left that seeks to bail out failures of corporations. The conservative free traders want them to go through bankruptcy.
Taxes aside, you don't think that American corporations have an obligation to keep their workforce in America?
The only obligation any corporation has is to its customers, geography notwithstanding.
You see no value in patriotism?
The only obligation any corporation has is to its customers, geography notwithstanding.
You see no value in patriotism?
Patriotism to WHAT? To a country that takes it as an obligation to destroy them? To happily participate in their own destruction as evidence of patriotism. That's the Jim Jones school of patriotism. If you believe, you will die for me.
When the taxes get so large they are confiscatory and harmful, it is not treason to oppose them or avoid them.
At one time it was treason to deny the King first night rights in a marriage.
Taxes aside, you don't think that American corporations have an obligation to keep their workforce in America?
No. Of course they don't. Does Toyota have an obligation to Japan to close it's plants in the US and move them back to Japan?
Corporations follow the same social dynamic as people do. Be nice to them, treat them well and they will stay. Fight with them, obstruct their industry and they will leave.
This should not be a mystery nor a subject for discussion. It's too cut and dried. In addition to taxes, companies must deal with minute and trivial regulations, union demands, endless fabricated lawsuits. They get sick of being mistreated and go where they are appreciated.
Here's your question. Does America have an obligation to American corporations to value the jobs they provide? Or, are those jobs some matter of right belonging to Americans no matter how abysmally they behave?
Taxes aside, you don't think that American corporations have an obligation to keep their workforce in America?
The only obligation any corporation has is to its customers, geography notwithstanding.
You see no value in patriotism?
