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We need to get rid of the corporations, not cater to them, I say GET RID OF THEM ALL
REMOVING all taxes or most of them here in the USA will CREATE problems not solve them
AND you try and insult me, calling me 17 years old and living off my parents, YOU are trying to start a fight and being a TROLL!
I will not be lectured by someone who could possibly be a 17 year old boy living off of his parents
Originally posted by ape
no marge I see the point very clear, I notice you among others always run around on these forums talking about how corrupt America is and how we are going to collapse etc etc etc, well let me tell you this is false.
Originally posted by RRconservative
Gingrich vs Hillary is the matchup I would most like to see! Gingrich would crush her!
Originally posted by ape
we are doing alot better than most we just need to check government spending which is out of control and make some replacements and reforms which is why fairtax will happen.
[edit on 22-1-2007 by ape]
Originally posted by Vekar
THANK YOU MARGE! THAT YOU FOR READING WHAT I WAS SAYING! THANK YOU!
Marge got it, she got what I was saying: corporate greed.
Now in case you are wondering what kind of "tax" I am talking about, I am talking about TARIFFS on imports. Two different words but none the less it gets the point across because they are both a tax.
USD $120 for pair of shoes-Domestic
USD $200 for pair of shoes-Foreign
Both shoes are the same design, but the foreign is made of substandard quality and material, the USA made is TOP quality and TOP quality material.
Without the tariff:
USD $120 for pair of shoes-Domestic
USD $60 for pair of shoes-Foreign
People will snatch up the 50% off shoes because they have low wages, even if they shoes are not going to last as long.
SUPPLY AND DEMAND! Supply goes up, demand goes down, supply goes down, demand goes up. Prices also flow along these lines.
Want to know WHY corporations will NEVER come back to the USA out of choice? Here is why:
Chinese get paid about $1.25 an hour in the South Pacific sweatshops/garmet factories, Americans get paid more than $13.25 in most areas.
Chinese are a dime a dozen, I LIVED in the South Pacific and SAW these factories, the corporations makes a MINT off of the Chinese and will NEVER go back to the USA because:
OSHA cannot touch them, they have to warn of any and all "inspections" a few months in advance
Workers are so cheap to get AN ORDINARY US CITIZEN WITH A LOW INCOME PAYCHECK COULD HAVE A HOUSEMAID! Saipan where I lived was where I first witnessed minimum wage job workers having housemaids who were immigrants, all on greencards. You may be poor, but you can have a housemaid they are so cheap.
Back to what I was saying:
-Chinese do not complain about working conditions
-They live in squalor and think- WOW! This beats my home in China!
-They get pregnant= fired
-Injured= fired
-Corporations use the illegal in the USA that is, INDENTURED WORKERS SYSTEM
-The corporation can provide housing for USD $200 a month, then slap 30 workers in a two room apartment and each pays them BACK 200 a month, which they cannot, the corporation makes them pay THEM for water and power.
-Work loads are insane, just think of a 4ft 2" Chinese woman with a stack of shirts taller than her she has to finish in the next 4 hours or face being fired.
-It is ALL legal.
So unless you make slavery legal in the USA, they are NOT comming back. I got to see inside one of these factories that makes shirts and that is how I know this, then a Chinese woman made a documentary about it which was shut up REALLY fast and exposed even MORE of what was going on. So unless slavery is legal once again, forget it. That or drop your wages to less than $1.25 an hour and remove all taxes, OSHA, and unions. Then make inspections illegal to boot. Then they might... ALSO make child labor legal again, do not forget that one, USD $0.05 an hour in Bangladesh.
We need to have companies that CARE, not companies that want MONEY and POWER=Greed and GLUTONY. Problems will only fester and get out of hand and explode in your face.
Ever wonder if the dems are TRYING to "lose?" They rig elections but it helps to put on a good show for the public, maybe they will put forth all of these people so no one can win and make it easier to fake the election, to many broken up votes. Maybe they will run Hillary because even if they FAIL at faking the election it wont matter.
Originally posted by Vekar
Ape you need to stop and THINK for once, you are NOT comprehending what I am saying, you sound as if you never even READ what I say. Garbage? YOUR posting the garbage because YOU refuse to comprehend what I am saying! AND you try and insult me, calling me 17 years old and living off my parents, YOU are trying to start a fight and being a TROLL!
-TAXING foreign IMPORTS makes them more EXPENSIVE to make elsewhere.
-TAXING DOMESTIC GOODS but LESS than foreign imports keeps the prices balanced or out of balance as they should be, I GAVE AN EXAMPLE OF THIS!
-REMOVING all taxes or most of them here in the USA will CREATE problems not solve them.
I do not work minimum wage but my parent used too, friends of mine work minimum wage, but not all. Guess what? Even the ones NOT working minimum wage have a hard time! Why? The government removes so many taxes from the elite that they pass it to the rest of us. This increases YOUR taxes, also they need money for their wars, so they increase YOUR taxes and debase YOUR dollar. I already read a link about the "fairtax" which was posted by someone else, forget the name. What I read will not help us but hurt us, corporations leave because they get cheap labor, to get cheap labor here you will have to pay LESS than other nations, or remove taxes as it suggested. Bad mistake, as I SAID IT FEEDS THOSE WHO ARE GREEDY!
Ape if all you can do is be disrespectul then do not talk to me again.
Originally posted by Vekar
Ugh, your making the same assumptions as ape did, sadly you are not realizing any of what I am saying because you refuse to comprehend. Also you keep trying to insult my intelligence. So, as I said to ape and now to you: if all you can do is insult me, do not talk to me.
What I propose is the BACKING UP of what we already have, it worked for over 100 years and can still work, only people are SCARED To back it up.
I named WHY corporations LEAVE the USA,
guess you missed that or purposefully overlooked it. A tax system based on your income is what will work IF YOU BACK IT UP and do as I said: prevent the elite from passing it to the consumer.
This has NOTHING to do with the topic, so this is as far as I will go, you can just go read what I said and I mean ALL of it not just what you WANT to read, then you might see what I was saying.