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WHY CORPORATE TAX DESERTERS SHOULDN’T GET THE BENEFITS OF BEING AMERICAN CORPORATIONS
Apple is only the latest big global American corporation to
use foreign tax shelters to avoiding paying its fair share of U.S. taxes. It’s
just another form of corporate desertion.
Corporations are deserting America
by hiding their profits abroad or even shifting their corporate headquarters to another nation because they want lower taxes abroad. And some politicians say the only way to
stop these desertions is to reduce corporate tax rates in
the U.S. so they won’t leave.
Wrong. If we start
trying to match lower corporate tax rates around the world, there’s no end to it.
Instead, the President should use his executive
power to end the financial incentives that encourage this type
of corporate desertion. President Obama has already begun, but there
is much left that could be done.
In addition, corporation that desert America by sheltering a large portion of their profits abroad or moving their headquarters to another country should no longer be entitled to
the advantages of being American.
1. They shouldn’t be allowed to influence the
U.S. government. They shouldn’t be allowed to contribute to U.S. political
campaigns, or lobby Congress, or participate in U.S. government agency
rule-making proceedings. And they no longer have the right to sue foreign
companies in U.S. courts for acts committed outside the United States.
2. They shouldn’t be entitled to generous
government contracts. “Buy American” provisions of the law should be
applied to them.
3. Their assets around the world shouldn’t any
longer be protected by the U.S. government. If their factories and
equipment are expropriated somewhere around the world, they shouldn’t expect
the United States to negotiate or threaten sanctions, or use our armed forces
to protect their investments. And if their intellectual property – patents,
trademarks, trade names, copyrights – are disregarded, that’s their problem
too. Don’t expect any help from us.
In fact, their
interests should be of no concern to the U.S. government – in trade
negotiations, climate negotiations, international treaties reconciling
American law with the laws of other countries, or international disputes over
access to resources.
They don’t get to be represented by the U.S. government
because they’re no longer American.
It’s simple logic.
If corporations want to desert America in order to pay less in taxes,
that’s their business. But they should no longer have the benefits that come
with being American.
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not voting for hillary clinton is a vote for donald trump
But also THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO CHOICES IN THIS ELECTION pls people, I know it seems unlikely, but if everyone who didn’t want either candidate wrote in a name, someone else would stand a chance [and we could live with ourselves, not having voted for one or the other]
no they wouldn’t, literally do not do this
please educate yourself about nader and the 2000 presidential election before encouraging this literally terrible idea
People on both sides say “Not voting for my candidate is a vote for the other guy” No, it’s just not a vote for your fucking candidate. Vote for who you actually believe in, otherwise you might as well not vote. If Hillary actually gave a damn she would try harder than just say “Vote for me cause I’m not Trump” No bitch, how about you show me something I can believe in. God damn, no wonder so many people don’t fucking vote.
*sigh*
Let me explain why they say a vote for a 3rd candidate or not voting for Hillary is voting for Trump:
The United States does not have a direct democratic voting system. We have an indirect system called the electoral college.The electoral college is a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens.
To win the Presidency you do not need a popular majority; you need the majority of votes of the electoral college.
The way the college works is that the two parties select the delegates that will serve as electors, and the electors pledge to vote for the candidates, depending on their party affiliation, of either the democratic or republican party. So, when people go vote, they are actually going to vote for electors that have pledged to vote for a specific party/candidate.
Each state is allocated a different number of electoral seats, and so not every state is truly worth the same given that every candidate is racing to secure 270 seats (minimum required to win the election).
What’s important to note is that the electoral college is a winner take all vote in 48 of the 50 states, meaning that the candidate with the higher number of votes in a given state will get ALL of the seats. This is one of the reasons why third party candidates are a wasted vote.
Based on our country’s history, most States around the country have already been defined as either red or blue, because the majority of the people that go and vote in said states tend to stick to either one or the other no matter who is on the ballot. It becomes a bit of loyalism to a party or, more accurately, just a strong distaste towards the ideals of the other party. However, there are a few swing states that really define the elections, for each election cycle they tend to change depending on who is on the ballot.
Now, third party candidates, which is often used as a protest vote, have never worked because a) they are not written into every state ballot, meaning that there are states that don’t offer these candidates given that they did not qualify b) have rarely gotten enough votes to even be up for electoral seats c) ALWAYS end up hurting one of the two candidates, for, in close runs, they can make one of the other two candidates lose a SWING STATE.
This is what happened with Ralph Nader in 2000. The votes that he received hurt Gore in certain states, particularly florida, which led to Bush winning as he had the majority of electoral seats even though he did not have the majority in popular vote.
Now, in the latest poll, it shows that the race between Hillary and trump is very close, and, when third party candidates are involved, it actually HURTS Hillary’s chances.
Now, if it hurts her enough, Trump can obtain the much needed swing states. If he gets over 270 seats (and thus more than hillary) he WILL win the goddamn election.
This is not a year to vote for a third party candidate. This is not a man you want in the oval office of the most powerful country in the world.
There is nothing NOTHING you can pull out that will make Trump the lesser of two evils.
We live in a country that has a two party system, so yes, a vote for a 3rd party candidate or a non-vote IS actually a vote for trump.
I was a Bernie supporter too, but “Bernie or Bust”ers are fucking idiots. Yes the system is corrupt, but you certainly wont fix anything by letting Trump win. Put your personal ideals aside for the good of the country.
But I’m not sure. I am quickly coming to believe that any such title belongs to the Trump campaign. Because I just can’t understand how he is doing as well as he is for as long as he has. Are there actually that many hard core racists and sexists and xenophobes and all around bigots in America that they can explain away the vileness that is the Trump campaign? Have we lost all ability to feel shame for our hateful attitudes? When, exactly, did we decide that the best preparation for being President of the United States was to have absolutely no idea what the President of the United States does … and even less interest in learning anything about it?
I am not so much despondent that Trump is being Trump: he is, after all, Donald Trump. A tottering, spuminating blowhard is what he is, and what he always has been. That is his essence, and he is being true to it.
Instead, I am despondent that so many of my fellow Americans are going for it. How can it be that hatred of Hillary Clinton trumps (!) reason, sanity, decency and indeed self-interest? The man’s not even a Republican for chrissakes. He’s not even vaguely going to do the kinds of things they want him to do. Not even a tiny, tiny bit with his tiny, tiny hands.
I had hoped we were better than that. I am sad to say that the work is incomplete, and our infrastructure of tolerance, decency and hope has, like so much of our infrastructure in recent years, undergone serious decline.
