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Comment Risking death? That death can be delivered quickly (Score 1) 577

What is deciding is if they really want a change to risk death. And if enough people want that, change will happen and governments will be overthrown by the population. Or serious change will be received (mixed schools and what not in the US) even without the population having guns.

You neglect, in your theory, the morality of the ruling party that the death-risking civilian is up against. I hold that Gandhi could peacefully & effectively protest British rule in ways that would have gotten him killed in many other parts of the world.

Communists, Nazis, Islamists, numerous other nasty ruling clans throughout history- are all perfectly willing to slaughter people who speak up in opposition to their rule. The young would-be gandhi never gets a chance to get noticed and gain a following because he's killed at the first sign of trouble.

Comment Re:*cough* bullshit *cough* (Score 3, Insightful) 183

I'm sure you meant concepts of holistic medicine.

But this brick is little more than a high tech swap cooler already used in homes in dry climates for years and years before AC was even invented. It would seem that the only magicsl thing about this is it would be vertical instead of horizontal. It still needs water and it still works off the evaporative cooling effect.

Comment Re:Double Irish (Score 2) 825

They wouldn't have to abandon anything. I do not know where you got that idea from. Toyota has all sorts of production assets in the US but they are a Japanese company. Likewise with BMW, and Audi. Lots of companies are like that.

  They will, as they do now, pay taxes on their economic activity within the US. The difference is that the money outside the US will never be patriated within the US and never subject to any US tax. Their foreign entities will no longer be subject to embargoes the US imposes unless their relocated country follows it too. They can also charge more for the imports to their US entities effectively siphoning US profits before they can be taxed.

Some might relocate shops and crap. Those would likely be considering offshoring anyways. But there is no need to do so to relocate the company under a different country jurisdiction.

Comment Re:Double Irish (Score 1) 825

They already pay taxes on the economic activity inside the US. Nothing would change on that front. However, a significant portion of that would be moved to foreign jurisdictions where they would escape them entirely. We lose the ability to make laws governing their behavior outside the US and so on.

Comment Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! (Score 1) 825

Everything private is cheaper in a free market economy. In a non-free market economy (which is what is set up almost everywhere across the world), private companies can manipulate governments to their advantage by buying influence and thus preventing actual competition.

FDA is there to prevent competition, so is every other law and tax, preventing actual competition creates a skewed market, in which it is impossible to get a true reading on what costs are actually.

Same with any government operation, money is fungible, so government operations are subsidised in more ways than one. Since there are very few actual free markets and that health care is not allowed to operate as a free market almost anywhere at all, comparing private health care in a non-free market and declaring that government beats free-market private health care is in itself a gigantic lie that you prefer to promote, that's your business, but you are not going to fog this issue that way for me.

Comment Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! (Score 1) 825

It is a set of corporations, parent corporation and a number of daughter businesses set up to minimise taxes and other types of liabilities. It is what I have to work with in the current environment. I prefer bearer certificates personally, they are a bit difficult to set up today. I prefer it if governments didn't exit at all and there was no such thing as a government controlled corporate charter of-course, given that the world is what it is, I come up with the best way of doing business I can in our reality.

Comment Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! (Score 0) 825

Apple would exist just fine, government wouldn't exist.

Government shouldn't be protecting anybody in business for any reason, including 'intellectual property' nonsense.

As to murdering and kidnapping - this is a private matter, it is up to any given locality how to deal with such nonsense, personally I prefer completely private security and private courts for handling any criminal activity.

Roads do not disappear if government does not usurp power by oppressing people into submission, roads should be completely private as well.

Gasoline quality and whatever other quality, all of it is up to private brands to maintain and compete upon.

A functioning government is a Mafia and should be understood and treated as such.

Comment Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! (Score 1) 825

Yes, hypocrisy is amusing, however there is no hypocrisy with a company that earned money in a foreign country not bringing its profits to USA so they can avoid paying those taxes.

As to the corporate charter provided by government - this shouldn't exist.

There shouldn't be intellectual property law - this shouldn't exist.

Free market is exactly absence of government creating monopolies, destroying competition, taxing income and profit and wealth, meddling with businesses, passing labour laws, etc.

There shouldn't be any government and there shouldn't be such a thing as 'limited liability' provided by government corporate law.

Comment Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! (Score 1) 825

Yes, deficits are bad. Yes, running deficits and adding to debts means higher future payments due to interest on the debt and it means higher future taxes.

In order to restart economic activity debts have to be paid off and/or restructured, debts have to be minimised and deficits have to stop.

Running deficits means taxing future earnings at a higher rate than the current tax rate, that's because debts cannot be accrued forever and it's not fake 'borrowing ceiling' that governments don't care about, it's the real lending ceiling that will be imposed by people who will no longer subsidise your economy with their productivity.

Cutting taxes and increasing debt based spending or inflation based spending is not cutting taxes at all, which is why Bush never actually cut taxes, he increased them by increasing spending.

USA is now the biggest debtor in history of the world and his happened since Nixon defaulted on the dollar in 1971 and the inflation started wiping out USA economy.

Comment Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! (Score 1) 825

Government provided health care is not cheaper. FDA is not cheaper, government laws and taxes and regulations do not make things cheaper, they either make things impossible or much more expensive than otherwise.

You are full of statistics, aren't you? Private health care, actually private, without government intervention cannot be beat by price by any government health care at all, given that TAX AND REGULATIONS COSTS ARE HIDDEN FROM SIGHT.

Comment Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! (Score 1) 825

And then there is a simple penalty.... You don't have a headquarters here in the US you don't sell a product here.... there are all sorts of cat and mouse games that can be played.

Really? :)))) That would make for one EMPTY WalMart, wouldn't it?

Go ahead, think through that once more, you like your stuff that you buy every day in any store in USA? Most of it was NOT made in America.

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