Posted on 06/02/2004 5:19:18 PM PDT by ETERNAL WARMING
They are not being put in charge of our security.
They are building the system that my coworkers and I will use to screen aliens.
>>>"There is an assurance that all this work will be done here and, of course, all the taxes will be paid here as well. In its second quarter filing, Accenture, I should note, paid 35 percent of its earnings in taxes to the United States from its United States operations."
Here's how it could work: 80% of contract goes to India for "R&D licensing" and the rest is U.S. labor with taxes on the revenues - R&D licensing - US labor.
So their "35% tax" on "US operations" would end up a sly Clinton verbal trick.
Many corporations move their earnings offshore using similar tricks. I wonder if Accenture would do the same?
Why can't we spend this money to keep out the millions of illegals each year?
Hoppy
Accenture - one of bill & hillary's most infamous anti-freedom rip off companies! Now under a new name (same ownership) registered in Bermuda so they pay NO U.S.A. TAXES AT ALL!!!!!!!!!
This is the company that leads the pack on your 'voting machines' - their list of clients is a who's-who of the worlds left-most organizations!
Look them up.
You have got to be kidding!!!!
I notice in the article dems are the only ones screaming about it.
Only because it's an election year. On this issue, it's all of government against the American workers.
"Now under a new name (same ownership) registered in Bermuda so they pay NO U.S.A. TAXES AT ALL!!!!!!!!! "
That is not true. All corporations registered to do business in the United States pay income tax on their income earned in the United States. The purpose for incorporating in Bermuda is to avoid paying U.S. income tax on earnings from foreign operations. This would not be necessary if U.S. corporate tax rates were lowered to rates competitive with our foreign competitors.
Second, Accenture is a services company, and its greatest expense is compensation for its employees. Those employees are mostly American citizens who pay U.S. income tax, FICA and other payroll taxes.
It reminds me of he decline and fall of Usenet. We are collecting ever-larger numbers of people who don't know anything, and don't care to find out. As rdb3 put it, they don't care for facts that get in the way of the outrage.
rdb3: Did you check out the reply five minutes previous to yours? [chuckle]
More like different corporate entity. And that's not my "belief," but a "fact."
Ain't that the truth. My personal favorite is, "I cannot prove it, but I know it's true . . . look it up yourself."
Hmmmm some choice; China or Bermuda; China or Bermuda.... I guess I'll take Bermuda so long as I don't have to wear the shorts and black socks.
I think what they mean is using technology to identify people coming into the US through Ports of Entry, completely forgetting about the thousands who sneak in without presenting themselves for inspection...kinda like bailing a boat with a 2 foot hole in it with a 1 foot bucket....
All incentives for illegal immigration need to be taken away and violaters punished, that would stop a whole lot more unidentified people from coming into the US for less money....They seize all profits and proceeds from drug smugglers and sellers, why not seize all the assets from those that broke the law to get into the US ? What's the difference? Why reward people for breaking the law when they should be punished? No more free medical care, welfare, drivers licenses, public schools etc...disparate treatment....Both types of people are just trying to earn a living...LOL...
This being the Internet doesn't help. My personal favorites in this regard are a poster who claimed that Walt Whitman was gay, on the basis that a Google search of walt+whitman+gay turned-up thousands of hits. I discovered that one of Whitman's biographers had the surname Gay. After I pointed that out, he dug deeper and found a grad student's term paper claiming the same.
Or the time some other bloke, when challenged, "found" a Power-Point presentation, AND CITED IT AS A SOURCE.
Just this morning, I nailed some "scholar" citing to an abstract of an article otherwise unavailable on the Web, that HE ADMITTED TO NOT HAVING READ.
In the hand of a feeble mind, Google is dangerous.
I cannot let this pass. Please tell us what CAFTA has to do with this story. It's been a long day, and I need a good laugh.
It is not a crime to not know something, but some people act like it is a crime to admit it. As far as I'm concerned, I'm here to learn stuff, not run my mouth. That's why I don't post much anymore unless the subject is airplanes, the military or war strategy. I even get those wrong on occasion. There is another thread where some genius is calling Bush a 'weak fool' of all things, for leaving a word out of a speech, as though Bush would have used the word, had the Freeper only called him up and told him what to do. I think sometimes we forget who we are, and that the president might not need our help ALL the time in order to get it right.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
They were entirely different companies by the time of Enron. The consulting practice paid about $1 billion just to get the divorce, which was a bargain since the accounting firm was demanding $14 billion.
They were not only not affiliated with each other, they were bitter bitter enemies.
I hope you are right.
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