Quote Originally Posted by Taichiliberal View Post
Your guess work non-withstanding, here's the deal:
Stop and think.....if they are able to hide and squirrel away damn near BILLIONS of dollars, then the prices they have are doing a pretty damned good job of making profit. So they can damned well afford to pay the taxes AND remain a healthy, wealthy, viable corporation WITHOUT RAISING PRICES!
Implementing Sanders plan would put serious money into the federal and state coffers....period. And given that green energy firms are essentially at a beginning phase and have nowhere near the decades long acquirement of wealth, gov't subsidies and resources that big oil companies enjoy, your "complaint" is dubious at best.
Your "flat tax" theory fails because there is no "level playing field" so long as folk like you carry the water for corporations who out source, off shore and then blame the working American for fictional potential financial woes if they were to straighten up and fly right. We won't see major tax reforms because of that reason and because our elections are based more on money than actual ideas and ideals.
Campaign finance reform will get you closer to eliminating crony capitalism than anything else. Meanwhile, my opening post stands valid.
Have any politicians proposed legislation that a company can't outsource because if they have I've missed it.
NO SHIT SHERLOCK, I NEVER SAID THEY DID....THAT'S JUST YET ANOTHER OF SANDERS PROPOSALS TO NOT GIVE THEM TAX BREAKS TO DO SO. BUT SINCE YOU ADMIT YOU'RE NOT LIKELY TO READ WHAT SANDERS PROPOSES, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW THIS. To have the federal government tell every business that they must have h.r., accounting, lawyers, production all within the company is nonsense.
NO ONE IS SAYING THAT, AND I DEFY YOU TO FIND A QUOTE OF A POLITICIAN WHO DID. SO STOP LYING ABOUT WHAT IS ACTUALLY BEING PROPOSED. You can accuse me of carrying water for firms who outsource but unless you want you want to put up massive tariffs and basically eliminate trade capital is going to flow where it is cheapest/gets its best returns.
Bottom line: you're justifying out sourcing and getting tax breaks for it, then inflating the price to sell to Americans, while at the same time hiding profit from taxation. Yeah, you're carrying water all right. Right now many manufacturing jobs are actually coming back to America.
Really? In what capacity and quantity? And does it offset what's being outsourced? The reality is we are in a global economy, it's not the 1950's, so we have to compete globally.
Again, WTF does that little mantra have to do with the FACTS I just previously stated? Why do you continue to try and justify corporate shuck and jive with psuedo-jingoistic blather?
Saying subsidies for green energy are good is fine but let's call it what it is, we like when the government supports industries we support. Even with campaign finance politicians can still give tax breaks and support to industries they like. I do not see how a flat tax fails because a company has offices/production overseas if all firms are paying evenly.
