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Offline CC27

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Should there be any tariffs Kentuck
« on: June 19, 2015, 01:15:21 PM »
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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.
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Re: Should there be any tariffs Kentuck
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2015, 01:59:07 PM »
Quote from: CC27 on June 19, 2015, 01:15:21 PM
When you breath you should get taxed.
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The tuckunder primitive was humming 'I'mThe Taxman' over and over as he wrote that.
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Re: Should there be any tariffs Kentuck
« Reply #2 on: June 19, 2015, 03:00:10 PM »
Primitives discussing economics.
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Re: Should there be any tariffs Kentuck
« Reply #3 on: June 19, 2015, 04:14:15 PM »
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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Re: Should there be any tariffs Kentuck
« Reply #4 on: June 19, 2015, 05:29:23 PM »
Quote from: Carl on June 19, 2015, 03:00:10 PM
Primitives discussing economics.
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Re: Should there be any tariffs Kentuck
« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2015, 07:35:47 PM »
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.

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Re: Should there be any tariffs Kentuck
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2015, 09:04:13 PM »
Oh gee.......

No tariffs?  Who's gonna fund your free shit?
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Re: Should there be any tariffs Kentuck
« Reply #7 on: June 19, 2015, 10:22:24 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on June 19, 2015, 07:35:47 PM
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.

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