Fascism as well is an economic model with a centrally planned economy. It uses hatred of other races/nations rather than class envy as its means of mobilizing the masses, however. Fascists love to nationalize industries (much like socialists dream to do), look at what Mussolini, Allende, Hitler, and a bevy of other fascists did.

Pssst. Fascism is just socialism with the class warfare replaced by nationalism. Two sides of the same coin.

Most of those are progressive, but were passed because of (or with stronger support than the Democrat) Republican support. Everything except the Great Society which has been an abysmal failure, that is... Perhaps the GOP really is the party of the individual, and the Democrats are the party of Big Business and Money. Shhh - don't tell anyone - but that is, in fact, the case...

And Grassley had what kind of input? He wasn't even a cosponsor of the bill. I guess he had a chance to speak - and was ignored. Which is probably why he also didn't vote for PPACA.

Ah yes, Obamacare. How many Republican votes did it get? How many chances did Republicans get to put in their $0.02 in conference? How is this a cave to the Republicans when they were locked out of the entire process and the entire thing passed with zero Republican support?

False. About $1500 to set up a Hong Kong LLC, and about $800 a year to maintain it. Profits earned overseas are then not taxed until you repatriate them to the US. And HK will not tax your profits as long as you don't do the work within Hong Kong. So a great way to defer your taxation until you decide you want to pay it. And quite cheap, too - it doesn't take much in the way of profit (as a personal consultant) to save $800 in taxation...

That statute applies. The difference is that the profits taxed under that statute are NOT taxed in their company's home country. If you're a UK or German company, and pay taxes under that US statute on some of your profits, you don't also pay taxes in the UK or Germany on those profits. Now, if you are a US company, and you pay taxes in Germany or the UK on some of your profits, you ALSO pay taxes in the US on those profits. Thus the reason to go Double Irish or Double Dutch.

Why not eliminate them altogether? They are about 10% of the total revenues of the US Government. So why not just eliminate them altogether? Here's my thinking...

Eliminate the corporate tax in the US altogether. Every company based in the US will suddenly exist in the greatest tax haven in the world. All companies world-wide will want to rush to the US to shelter their own incomes from their home countries. Lots of new revenue/assets flow to the US - as well as lots of jobs. How do those jobs come? Simple - if you want to incorporate within the US, then a certain percentage of all your jobs must be located within the US. You want to relocate from the UK or Luxembourg? Then, say, 20% of your workforce must be located in the US. That's tens of millions of new jobs coming to the US.

I bet taxes from funds spent inside the US (via personal consumption of the new jobs and spending related to construction and expansion) would more than offset the loss of corporate income tax. And we'd have more people working (rather than having nearly 100 million of working age sitting on the sidelines in the current economy). Not to mention the BEST way to raise wages is via competition - more jobs than people, which means more income for workers.

So little revenue gained from corporate taxes in the US, so eliminate them and turn that to the strength to draw all worldwide corporations into the US. And win from the economic benefits of their local spending and hiring.

The point is that only the US demands to tax on all revenues and profits made world-wide; no other G23/first and second world country does this. They all tax just profits earned in-country, since the company pays taxes on profits realized elsewhere.

It's not just multi-nationals. I do it as well, for my personal consulting. HK is a great, low-tax/no-tax jurisdiction as well, and just $1500 can get you set up there.

NOW we know why Apple always has problems with daylight savings time and leap years...

The House is the one that creates the budget - not the Senate. The Senate can amend and send back - but that would mean taking the bill up in the first place, which is something that Senator Reid refuses to even allow...

And? The Metro UI app is as simple as the Windows 7 app to add a user. It's the same thing - just with different looks...

I guess you're not aware of how a budget works... The House proposes, the Senate votes/approves, the President signs. Two of those three entities are in the hands of the Democrats - and absent a budget, the previous allocations (with pre-determined increases for inflation and the like) stay in effect. Hard to change the budget when neither the Senate nor the President want to pass a budget...