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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: CC27 on June 19, 2015, 01:15:21 PM
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kentuck (74,089 posts)
Should there be any tariffs on products coming into this country?
A tariff is a tax.
If we follow the logic of the Supreme Court, if a corporation is "begun" in this country, then it is an American corporation. However, if they move their operations overseas, they consider themselves "multi-national".
Should big tech companies that have moved to India or Indonesia or elsewhere, have to pay a tax (or tariff) when they ship their products back to this country to be sold? For example, Apple computers sell their MACs to dedicated and loyal American customers and they take the money and put it in tax havens so they do not pay any taxes to the American government. Reportedly, they have between $50-100 billion in off-shore accounts.
Likewise, Walmart has a reported $73 billion in off-shore accounts, so as to escape taxes to the American government. Much of these profits have come from American consumers.
Consider that many of these corporations have actually received tax breaks to move their jobs overseas and have created shortfalls in revenue to our own government. They move for the cheap labor, not necessarily for the new market of consumers. They still value and depend upon the American consumer for their wealth creation.
Since they do not pay taxes to our country, and use the trade treaties negotiated by our President and Congress to establish plants in these other countries, why should they escape paying taxes when they ship their products back to our shores? Why should they not have to pay a tariff to make up for the taxes that they evade and the jobs that they dismantle in this country?
Can you make an argument for not having a tariff on these corporations that evade paying taxes to America, even as they make humongous profits off American consumers?
When you breath you should get taxed.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026863984
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When you breath you should get taxed.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026863984
The tuckunder primitive was humming 'I'mThe Taxman' over and over as he wrote that.
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Primitives discussing economics.
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Ummmm ... products can't be taxed. People pay taxes. And just as when a corporation is "taxed", the ones who will pay the tariffs are not the foreign corporation, but the people who buy their products, Americans.
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Primitives discussing economics.
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I know, but they continue to try. Much to our amusement.
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YES, YES, YES.....high tariffs unfairly targeting certain people started the last civil war against the federal government. This or these tariffs sound as if they would impact everyone so the whole population would revolt against the federal government.
Don't pay in attention to me tonight, I'm pissed. a storm butchered my gardens.
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Oh gee.......
No tariffs? Who's gonna fund your free shit?
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YES, YES, YES.....high tariffs unfairly targeting certain people started the last civil war against the federal government. This or these tariffs sound as if they would impact everyone so the whole population would revolt against the federal government.
Don't pay in attention to me tonight, I'm pissed. a storm butchered my gardens.
Been there before JohnnyReb. Know how ya feel, buddy. :cheersmate: