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I don't like responding to you, but nice straw man. Explain why corps would want to stay in a place that taxes them nearly totally instead of bailing. In the 50s there wasn't the same globalization that made it so easy.

A big reason that changed was the high corp tax rates you love. But you're just flinging insults and straw man arguments as usual.

ETA pining for the 50s is probably the most basic boomer take imaginable.
You really think that Tim Cook is going to move Apple to some shithole country because of a higher tax rate? Even for a guy who thinks that a conman who bankrupted 6 casinos is the best businessman ever you're a retard. How do you even complete basic tasks?
 
Loomer is a nutter but she also has been on the ball lately. Clearly there are some bad eggs that snuck into the system that need to be flushed.
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>laura loomer

Does anyone on the Right give a damn what this melted down Jew whore has to say? I haven't seen any rightoids post any of her takes in a long while.
yeah she's off on mars but sometimes she's got some real dirt, so don't base your life on her teachings but receipts are receipts, even if the crazy cat lady brings them
 
You really think that Tim Cook is going to move Apple to some shithole country because of a higher tax rate? Even for a guy who thinks that a conman who bankrupted 6 casinos is the best businessman ever you're a retard. How do you even complete basic tasks?
Theres a reason why so many major companies have their formal corporate headquarters in Ireland
 
That "massive government spending" was actually a huge pullback from the war spending of 1917-1918.

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The money for the war was going to money for a war. Not to artificially inflate the worth of businesses internally on value that didn't exist. Of course spending dropped after the war. That's what happens when the war ends. I'm talking about the allocation of spending internally.
 
They will. Instead you think corporations should not have to pay taxes and that your taxes should be raised so that Elon and Apple don't have to pay any taxes. It's okay, we know you're intellectually disabled and worship billionaires like a good little MAGA retard
Higher corporate taxes, like tariffs, will be placed on the consumer. Unlike taxes, higher tariffs could stimulate growth in certain markets.
 
For a guy who says that shit, you do nothing but whiteknight Trump and other Republicans. Trump is going to cause your groceries to go up 25% in a few months and you're defending it and celebrating it, all because your waifu did it. Trump plans to gut medicaid so that billionaires can get yet another tax cut. Stop it with that shit if you're gonna claim such a thing
Where have I whiteknighted for Trump over the tariffs? Or other republicans - other than Nixon who I think was done dirty, but that's less about politics and more about wider conspiracy theories.
As for health care, that americans don't have an NHS-style system (which used to work before a two decades of incompetence) and systems like holiday and sick pay for workers, countrywide as a standard, shows how well the propaganda from the rich is working.

FWIW, Hulk, I'm not American. If my grocery prices rise, it's because my government are incompetent.
 
Higher corporate taxes, like tariffs, will be placed on the consumer. Unlike taxes, higher tariffs could stimulate growth in certain markets.
No they won't. If a corporation is paying 90% in taxes, that means each dollar in profit they will only be able to keep a dime. They wouldn't increase prices by 1000% for that. Higher tariffs won't stimulate growth. They never have and they never will. Your waifu has an unhealthy obsession with them and you're only defending them because he suggested it. You mindlessly will believe everything he says like a good little MAGA consoomer.


Anyway, I will let you guys get back to circle jerking yourselves off over how excited you are to pay 35% more for groceries and how crashing the economy is a good thing because the obese, elderly, senile conman who you want to penetrate you is doing it because I got a busy afternoon of work meetings
 
Theres a reason why so many major companies have their formal corporate headquarters in Ireland
One of the things Biden did was make bank companies virtually tax-free in DE, so they all moved there too. Companies flee high tax blue states all the time. There's no helping someone that can't understand basic cause and effect. We'll see on tariffs.
 
All thats great, and let's assume it's true. JohnnyBravo asked you a good question. Why is it ok for the other countries in the world to tariff the USofA but not ok for the USofA to place tarifs on the world?
It's not OK for China to do what it does, but you have to be careful and strategic about it and consider the tradeoffs. Broad tariffs are an extremely regressive form of tax which means the burden will fall heaviest on people with the lowest incomes.

You also need to plan for impact on supply chains, as well as domestic producers increasing their prices because the tariff lets them get away with it by making competitor products artificially more expensive.

As well as what might happen if the tariffed nations start realigning trade with each other and stop buying US exports, or stop using the US dollar as a reserve currency. Remember, the trade deficit is only one piece of the balance of payments.
 
Over the last 20 years or so, I've heard the repeated line, "Social Security will go bankrupt in 8 years", but somehow it's still here and it's still being funded. The fear mongering and retardation over Social Security and Medicaid serves no one. All it does is freak people out (though, then again, that is the goal, isn't it?).
"The ponzi scheme hasn't collapsed yet so that means it'll never collapse! sure inflation is running wild, the national debt is north of 35 trillion, nobody can afford a house, the birthrate is plummeting because a one income household is virtually impossible now and most couple have to each work 40hrs a week to even survive. But as long as those problems come to a head after I'm dead and gone and my kids have to deal with it instead, who cares?"
 
You know I have yet to see a real good answer to this question by people against the tariffs. Why is it ok for every other country to tariff us but its bad for us to tariff them? Why is it ok for Japan to push more local products and goods to be sold over another countries, but we have to continue to buy medicine from fucking China of all places. Please I need a real, honest, answer with facts and someone holding life sized charts that isn't just regurgitated sound bites from the some commie youtuber or something like that.
You saw the number that Trump was showing in his chart yesterday?
That number saying "This country tariff us X amount"?
That x amount is complety fabricated by Trump in the majority of the cases
 
The US Trade Representative tweeted 10 unfair trade practices:
In honor of Liberation Day, USTR is spotlighting 10 unfair trade practices faced by American exporters.
  1. China's non-tariff measures and high tariffs on U.S. agricultural products, like soybeans, pork, wheat, and corn, have greatly restricted market access for American farmers. Removing these barriers would generate an estimated $6 billion in additional annual exports of these products.
  2. The U.S. shrimp industry noted the negative impacts of subsidized low-cost, farm-raised shrimp imports from Brazil, China, Ecuador, India, Thailand, and Vietnam. According to National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries, the total value of U.S. shrimp fishermen's catch fell from $522 million in 2021 to $268 million in 2023—an almost 50% decrease in total value.
  3. South Africa heavily restricts U.S. poultry exports through high tariffs, anti-dumping duties, and unjustified animal health restrictions. These barriers have contributed to a 78% decline in U.S. poultry exports to South Africa, from $89 million in 2019 to $19 million in 2024.
  4. Egypt’s average applied tariff on agricultural goods is 65.1%, 13 times higher than the United States and one of the highest in the world. In the past, Egypt has raised its applied WTO MFN tariffs on multiple agricultural products, further exacerbating the disadvantages U.S. products face in Egypt as EU products benefit from preferential rates granted under the EU-Egypt Free Trade Agreement.
  5. The annual cost to the U.S. economy of counterfeit goods, pirated software, and theft of trade secrets is between $225 billion and $600 billion. In 2023, China was responsible for 84% of the value of counterfeit and pirated goods seized by U.S. CBP, including those transshipped through Hong Kong.
  6. Argentina has banned imports of U.S. live cattle since 2002 due to unsubstantiated concerns regarding bovine spongiform encephalopathy. As a result, the United States has a $223 million trade deficit with Argentina in beef and beef products.
  7. For years, Brazil has used unjustified animal health concerns to stall granting market access for U.S. pork and pork products. In agricultural goods, the U.S. trade deficit with Brazil has risen steeply in recent years, amounting to $7.0 billion in 2024.
  8. Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, and Vietnam restrict or prohibit the importation of remanufactured goods, restricting market access for U.S. exporters while also stifling efforts to promote sustainability by discouraging trade in like-new and resource-efficient products. If these barriers were removed, it is estimated that U.S. exports would increase by at least $18 billion annually.
  9. Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing undermines America’s competitiveness and costs the global seafood industry up to $50 billion per year. China and Mexico have been identified for illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing, with China operating the world’s largest distant water fishing fleet and Mexico facing ongoing challenges with illegal fishing activities and inadequate enforcement of its environmental commitments under USMCA.
  10. U.S. automakers face a variety of non-tariff barriers that impede access to the Japanese and Korean automotive markets. Due to these non-reciprocal practices, the U.S. automotive industry loses out on an additional $13.5 billion in annual exports to Japan and access to a larger import market share in Korea.
For additional information on unfair trade practices faced by American exporters, please see the 2025 National Trade Estimate Report. https://ustr.gov/about/policy-offic...-releases-2025-national-trade-estimate-report
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The report is the same book that Trump held up during his speech. It's worth reading as it contains a summary of everything that every country is doing to the US on trade.
 

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