Comment Re:No offense! (Score 1) 1142
Do you really think any sane person wants MS buying up and killing more innovative companies in their drive to prevent the rise of any new technologies that might threaten them? I mean seriously, they have bought and killed so many cool companies over the years I can't imagine anyone who can even conceive of this being a good thing, regardless of what areas of technology you pay attention to.
Small companies interested in being acquired would approve of this. Owners and employees of small companies/startups often hope that large companies will buy them. Also, MS and other large corporations don't kill every technology they buy.
Generally speaking, corporations have no ethics. They are greed personified and exist solely to make money. They do whatever makes them the most money, even when it is illegal or unethical. Laws should treat them appropriately and not try to pretend they deserve some sort of inherent rights. They exist as legal entities for the good of the people and all laws regarding them should be from that perspective.
You believe that corporations are "greed personified". That is your opinion (not an unequivocal fact). Some corporations may be led by greedy executives while others may be not. Otherwise, corporations obviously do exist to make money. However, a goal of making money does not necessarily equate to being greedy.
Some corporations may break the law, some may not. However, it can hardly be proven that all or even most do break the law in order to make money.
I agree that the law should treat them equally (or fairly). I also agree that corporations shouldn't (necessarily) have special rights. However, I never mentioned this in my original post so I'm not sure how it relates to my statement which was "corporations are not evil".
Sure there are, they're just overseas as part of their foreign subsidiaries. The corporations would love for them to be here too, but don't have the ability to make that happen yet.
I agree that treatment of workers overseas is pretty sad. However, I was specifically referring to working environment/benefits in the US (within the context of how increased taxes would affect them).
So a tiny subset of employees being paid more than they should be for the effort they put in is somehow a good thing?
I think Americans benefits from this. I think the American government should base policy on what is of benefit to its citizens (within reason, not through military means unless necessary, etc).
If you think lower tax rates will significantly affect that, you're dreaming. Ballmer is blustering, but has no real options.
You have to more than disagree with points, you have to logically refute them.
We the people control the government. It is our money they're spending and our debt they're creating. It's our fault what they do with it because we don't take enough time as a country to actually understand what's going on and vote for the right people. I actually think some people in our current government are trying to do the right thing to fix our economy, but then I actually have more than a 4th grade understanding of economics. We've been headed down a road to destruction for years now and turning aside is going to be really, really hard. A big part of that is tax reform. What do you call a system that is constantly moving in one direction? Unstable. That's where we are now because we have such absurdly low rates of progressiveness in our taxation. To balance our economy and stabilize things, we need to get rid of some of these loopholes. Right now corporations are paying their foreign subsidiaries huge amounts of money for very little as a way to funnel money out of the country instead of paying taxes on the earnings. They're using banks that won't cooperate so they can lie about it. It takes a twisted perspective to try to make them out to be the "good guys" here.
Well, I believe that we agree, somewhat, in that we are not electing the right people. I also believe that tax reform is a critical component of turning things around. However, I believe the bigger thing to be concerned about is spending. The government should spend less, thus generating smaller/no debts, thus placing less of a tax burden on the citizenry. If reckless spending is/was the problem, hiking taxes is not the answer. Less spending is the answer!
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