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

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (37587)	7/25/2004 6:59:49 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 81568

Why is it they prefer the business climate, the political climate, protection from the US military for their foreign assets etc. when they are making money abroad? Well, Kerry's corporate tax plan will provide a powerful incentive for multinationals to disassociate themselves from the US. In fact, they'll be punished financially if they don't. This would be a disaster for the US IMO. As a US taxpayer, I do not want my Govt. to exercise its political and military clout for Microsoft should the Indian Govt. seize its assets, if Microsoft does not pay its fair share of US taxes. That's a bewildering sentence. Microsoft's assets are primarily intellectual property, so I don't know how a government would seize them. And I don't know of any foreign governments, including India, that are thinking of trying to seize anything from Microsoft. And if a foreign government were to try to seize Microsoft's assets, surely it wouldn't be over the issue of Microsoft's paying US taxes. ..Mr. Manciw and his group of political advisors.. I don't know who Manciw is - I posted an opinion piece by Kevin Hassett - who Kerry's campaign cited erroneously as being in support for Kerry's corporate tax plan. My especially has been formed from witnessing the imbalance in the distribution of wealth due to imperialism. Imperialism is on the wane worldwide. Cloaking it in such armchair economic theories Imperialism has been dead practically speaking for some time now. I'd say its largely irrelevant except in sub-Saharan Africa where France continues to dominate its former colonies in a quasi-colonial manner. But what does imperialism have to do with Kerry's corporate tax plans? Are you in favor of multinational corporations based in the US moving overseas lock stock and barrel for "anti-colonial" reasons of some sort?