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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (10247)	3/27/2004 5:44:59 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

>For the same reason that an individual person >can't change his citizenship to the Cayman Islands >while continuing to live in NYC and work on wall >street making 1mm$$/year. A foreign citizen most certainly can live and work in NYC and make 1mm$$/year here, so long as they file and pay U.S. income tax on the money they make here in the U.S.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (10247)	3/27/2004 6:01:04 PM
From: Peter O'Brien	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

>As far as offshore ops, if a complete division offshore >produces a product, and sells it HERE (as is a common >practice for Hewlett Packard for example) then it is the >offshore division of HP that is profitable, NOT HP US- >even if they sell the product here! I don't think you have >thought this through. Kerry's plan addresses this in its >entitety. If Kerry really does somehow prevent U.S. companies from re-incorporating in another countries, there is STILL another way around it... I predict you will start seeing U.S. companies SPINNING OFF their profitable foreign-based operations into SEPARATE foreign-based companies!