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Old 02-03-2016, 11:26 AM
 
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They aren't leaving for better places to do business. They are redomiciling -- just changing legal status. Nothing substantive is changing.

I don't fault the company for doing this. I fault U.S. law for allowing it. They should be taxed regardless of where the home office is said to be.
I agree when I lived in Australia and Canada I was subject to US taxation, including income earned outside the US.. same rule for corporations.
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Old 02-03-2016, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Dallas
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It's not that easy to determine where money is actually earned for a company like Google, where are profits from intellectual property taxed.
That's still no reason for the US to tax all earnings.
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Old 02-03-2016, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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That's the problem with people who think that any regulation is an unreasonable affront to their liberty. Even Adam Smith, the father of capitalism, believed that it was legitimate for government to regulate business.
I've never met somebody who advocates NO regulation. But look at this;




http://mercatus.org/sites/default/fi...ivity_v1_0.pdf
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Old 02-03-2016, 05:38 PM
 
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Trump will make them come back and set up manufacturing here and pay 15/hr to stuff hubcaps in a box.
...better than $10 crack to stuff in their crack pipe!
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