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The U.S. taxes corporate income earned anywhere in the world, but most countries tax only income earned within that country, thus putting U.S. firms at a disadvantage. Currently U.S. companies don't need to pay taxes on foreign profits until they are repatriated, and I think Obama wants to tax them immediately.

Punishing U.S. multinationals will simply encourage U.S. companies to shrink by selling foreign operations to foreign companies.

1 posted on 02/26/2009 2:36:19 PM PST by reaganaut1
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Didn’t Halliburton recently move their HQ to Dubai?


2 posted on 02/26/2009 2:39:09 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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“impose a $31.5 billion tax increase, over a 10-year period, on oil companies’

And gas prices? Will the increase be blamed on the messiah?

Of course not. The obozo leg humpers in the media will blame the greedy oil companies.


3 posted on 02/26/2009 2:39:23 PM PST by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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Obama wants to run every last job out of the country.


4 posted on 02/26/2009 2:39:31 PM PST by KansasGirl
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...thus putting U.S. firms at a disadvantage...

Karl Marx would call that a good thing.

5 posted on 02/26/2009 2:39:45 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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Or reform as foreign corporations with a US division. Why do you think the company was DaimlerChrysler based in Germany instead of ChryslerDaimler based in Detroit? They didn't want to be a US corporation because of US tax laws.
6 posted on 02/26/2009 2:40:12 PM PST by KarlInOhio (On 9/11 Israel mourned with us while the Palestinians danced in the streets. Who should we support?)
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This dude really is as crazy as I thought he was.


7 posted on 02/26/2009 2:40:13 PM PST by ilgipper
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WASHINGTON -- "President Barack Obama has proposed a dramatic tax increase on the foreign profits of U.S. multinationals"

Yep! And just watch the percentage decrease of U.S. multinationals in the USA as they headquarter overseas.

8 posted on 02/26/2009 2:42:00 PM PST by avacado (Bipartisanship is when Democrats and Republicans get together to rob the American people blind)
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Does anyone realize how bad all these proposals are, like taxing oil companies in a recession and when he claims he wants “energy independence”? This is a massive joke - on us.


9 posted on 02/26/2009 2:42:56 PM PST by Williams (It's The Policies, Stupid.)
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just another roadblock to recovery.


10 posted on 02/26/2009 2:44:33 PM PST by GeronL (Will bankrupting America lead to socialism?)
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"Obama has proposed a dramatic tax increase on the foreign profits of U.S. multinationals"

Which will cause job losses in the countries where those companies have operations.

So let's not just destroy our own economy. Let's destroy the economies of other countries.

Trivia Question: Where will the next Pearl Harbor take place? How many megatons? Which country or country will drop the bombs?

11 posted on 02/26/2009 2:44:59 PM PST by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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Obama's father was a Kenyan communist economist.

Obama has always dreamt of being him.

He is pushing every communist program he can to turn the US into what his father would have approved of.

14 posted on 02/26/2009 2:48:40 PM PST by what's up
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“President Barack Obama has proposed a dramatic tax increase on the foreign profits of U.S. multinationals,”....

The sinking of America brought to you by the three ring circus in the white house!


15 posted on 02/26/2009 2:50:33 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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[using wiki as my numbers source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_the_United_States]

Bottom 50% of tax payers (138 million total based on 2007) is about 70 million taxpayers. The bottom 50% is defined as 30,000 or less so lets assume the average income is $25,000.
The bottom 50% pay only 3.3%. Lets assume we change the AMT so that all Americans must pay 8% (a 4.7% increase for the bottom 50%).

So lets do the math

70 million * 4.7 percent * $25,000 = $82.25 Billion
The per person tax increase would be about $22.60 per week

Normally, I oppose tax increases across the board. But I see such a move as normalizing the gross tax imbalance that is such a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. Hopefully, we could get to either the Flat or the Fair Tax.

Normally, I oppose tax increases. However,

16 posted on 02/26/2009 2:54:31 PM PST by taxcontrol
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"eliminating incentives for companies that ship jobs overseas "

...by creating incentives for companies to move completely overseas.

These people are totally out of their minds with STUPID.

20 posted on 02/26/2009 3:29:47 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (ALSO SPRACH ZEROTHUSTRA)
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"Man is not free unless government is limited.... as government expands, liberty contracts"~~~ Ronald Reagan
21 posted on 02/26/2009 3:30:07 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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They chose the form of the Destructor, alright.

Obama isn’t any wimpy Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. When he sets out to destroy an economy he means it.


22 posted on 02/26/2009 3:33:35 PM PST by 1010RD (First Do No Harm)
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tax increase on the foreign profits of U.S. multinationals,

Look for U.S. based multinationals to be shuttering their doors and moving overseas ... and thousands of jobs with them.

Here's a sneak preview of what they're having for Thanksgiving dinner this year at the White House ..


23 posted on 02/26/2009 3:34:12 PM PST by tx_eggman (I own two rare photos. Houdini as he locks his keys in his car and Norman Rockwell beating a child.)
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Or by moving overseas and leaving a separate entity here that is an arm of a foreign corporation.


27 posted on 02/26/2009 3:41:18 PM PST by AmericanVictory
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Yes, and not only that, it will greatly increase the trade deficit again. Prices for goods we no longer make here will be sold back to us at much higher costs.

We will lose countless more jobs also, because outsourcing will go to the lowest bidder and higher fees will be charged for those services to American companies forced to use them, due to the increased taxes for those services.


28 posted on 02/26/2009 3:44:42 PM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP (WHAT? Where did my tag line go? (ACORN))
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29 posted on 02/26/2009 3:49:34 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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