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   Tue Elung-Jensen said, almost 2 years ago

   Can´t roll those wheelbarrows all by himself though.
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   motivemagus said, almost 2 years ago

   Nonsense, towerwarlock. Let businesses contribute to this country as much as they take out. Let so-called patriots prove that they are supporting their country and not just their wallets.
   Research shows that during the six quarters since the recession officially ended “corporate profits captured 88% of the growth in real national income while aggregate wages and salaries accounted for only slightly more than 1% of the growth in real national income. The extraordinarily high share of national income (88%) received by corporate profits was by far the highest in the past five recoveries from national recessions.”
   So the cartoon is dead on.
   http://www.clms.neu.edu/publication/documents/Revised_Corporate_Report_May_27th.pdf
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   hotdogger said, almost 2 years ago

   ^And that is the mantra of Communism. Capitalism says you can earn as much as you like in a fair and non-monopolistic environment. Look at Microsoft: Hire as many people as it takes to develop a software product, charge as much as you like, and reap the profits. That made Bill Gates the richest man in the world, and fairly so. Why should he be required to hire people he didn’t need?
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   pavlov said, almost 2 years ago

   Progressive tariffs, then it become fair trade not free trade. You can’t compete with $2.50 per hour or unheated factories with dirt floors.
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   Harleyquinn said, almost 2 years ago

   No the rich guy is saying why should I hire more to make more just for mommy government to take it away in order to spread the wealth around. Maybe, just maybe the next guy will not be targeting “millionaires and billionaires and jets” in doing so he has proved he is nothing but a wealth envy class warfare hore who has nothing more to offer. Further more Obama is either keeping the lie alive knowing that taxing the “millionaires and billionaires” and jets will do NOTHING to bring down the dept. or he is just plain stupid! either way why should those who can make some money for themselves keep it and horde it away for a day when it is cool once again to reap the benefit of their hard work.
   You want money to come back to the USA for jobs? You want to cultivate good relationships with those who can bring jobs back to the USA/ Then turn the USA into the largest tax haven in the world! FAIR TAX!
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   motivemagus said, almost 2 years ago

   Nonsense again, hotdogger. It’s not a fair and non-monopolistic market, that’s exactly the point. When big business can get Congress to give them major tax breaks for moving operations overseas, or corporate welfare for exploring for oil in a year when they make record profits, how on Earth is that “fair and non-monopolistic?” It’s not like American workers can go to China and take a job in a factory there.
   And your two examples are utterly hilarious. China IS a Communist state, lest you forget, and it keeps its foot on the workers who have enabled their economic growth. And Microsoft WAS a monopoly, remember? When you own 95%+ percent of the market and you can crush competitors as a matter of course, you are a monopoly.
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   Harleyquinn said, almost 2 years ago

   Oh Obama is also keeping the lie alive with “millionaires and billionaires” either that or he is just very bad with math. The last time I checked $200,000 a year does not make you a “millionaire or a billionaire”
   But strangely enough once you hit around that $250,000 a year in a small mom and pop shop, that for taxing does count that to income tax but that is about when you might look around for more help around the shop. mmmm pay more in taxes by hiring some help or just work to what I can afford.
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   dtroutma said, almost 2 years ago

   “Capitalism” says you make a better mouse trap, sell it at a fair price, and you make more money, AND help support the economy and society that made it possible. Feudalism says you take from everyone below your privileged class, make THEM do all the work, AND pay the taxes for you, and you live in a castle, with a moat, to keep out the “riff-raff”. Which defines today’s CEOs and corporate elite?

   
   Paying taxes is NOT “SOCIALIST”. Sharing the wealth for the benefit of all is the way things work in a REPUBLIC, or DEMOCRACY. “Plutocracy” is NOT a democracy either. “Idiocy” is believing the folks ripping you off are “on your side”.
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   pirate227 said, almost 2 years ago

   Foreign workers are cheaper.
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    grayhares01 said, almost 2 years ago

    Everyone on here knows I’ m the last one to offer socialist solutions, but even I wouldn’t be opposed to an executive pay a ceiling of say… 40X the average worker…
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    omQ R said, almost 2 years ago

    @pirate227

    No, I am not.
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    churchillwasright said, almost 2 years ago

    MOTIVE: So corporate profits are up, but they’re not re-investing it in their business like they did after the past 5 recessions. Yet you seem to think this has nothing to do with Obama’s economic policies, as if they make decisions in a vacuum
    
    TROUT said: “Sharing the wealth for the benefit of all is the way things work in a REPUBLIC, or DEMOCRACY.”
    
    Really? I hadn’t heard that before. Where did you pick up this tidbit of information? Graffiti wall or Plato?
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    BrianCrook said, almost 2 years ago

    ¶ Taxes are so low that the plutocracy can afford to own its own party, the Teapublicans. By owning it & the rightstream media, which it has owned for years, the plutocracy got enough Teapublicans into Congress to prevent any tax hikes on the plutocracy’s wealth. Thus, Teapublicans refuse to move if it might mean an increase on a millionaire’s taxes.
    ¶ This is also the reason that Big Business prefers raking in its own profits to hiring or improving its businesses in America. Besides, more of American business has moved overseas. All that is left here are those who enjoy the profits. Bush-Dick & the Republican Congress took great strides into turning America into a huge Bahamas.
    ¶ If we want Big Business to hire, then we must raise the tax on the income of millionaires and drastically raise the tax on their bonuses. In addition, if you want to lower the federal debt, there is no better way than increasing taxes on millionaires.
    ¶ Over the last fifty years, what decade had the weakest economy? the last decade. When was the highest tax rate at its lowest level? the last decade.
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    kreole said, almost 2 years ago

    They don’t know what Washington’s tax structure is going to be…Washington won’t make up it’s mind.
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    kibilocomalifasa said, almost 2 years ago

    Two words. Laissez Faire.
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