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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (28655)9/23/2003 3:01:28 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
US has highest corp tax structure among 17 industrialized nations

Totally untrue!

This is a hard metric to measure anyway, for example Europe's month long holiday in August is actually a stealth "tax" on those businesses. From a taxation standpoint the US is better than most of the industrial countries. We are worse than the developing countries though.



To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (28655)9/23/2003 3:12:24 PM
From: Chas.  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
we are a house of cards.........Credit cards.....

as personal bankruptcys increase, Lending Banks feel the pinch.....as this increases, Banks will begin to fold, as this becomes endemic, the financial system will blink.....
at the same time we are sending all of our manufacturing jobs off shore to Asia, our tecnology and tech jobs to India, our facking govt sits by and is maybe partnered to this BS........
UAW just sold 50000 jobs down the drain to Mexico, Canada, Europe and guarantees no new jobs here for the forseeable future.........what the fakkkkkkkkkk........

among young married couples statistics show that bankruptcys are more prevalent txoday than divorce.........
what the fakkkkkkkkkk..........

young married couples with double incomes can no longer afford the new houses being built a $350000 a clip.....
what the fakkkkkkkk......................

Have a nice day....



To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (28655)9/23/2003 7:22:14 PM
From: RealMuLan  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 89467
 
>>how about we exchange with China our USTBond debt for ownership of California???<<

Sounds like a great idea to me<g>.

As for the the value of Yuan, how can you be so sure that Chinese Yuan will be definitely going up instead of going down in case it becomes a free float currency? Personally, I think that remains to be seen since no one on this planet knows for sure what is the reasonable exchange rate bet. US$ and Yuan