So, let me get this straight - a company like Google sets up an office in Europe to handle its European affairs, gets taxed on this profit at that country's rate, and there's something wrong with that? The part that allows corporations to act like they have the power of $DEITY by originating in the US, but being able to sidestep US laws (taxes, immigration/H1/L1).
if only america could survive without china to prop itself up on... bonds and manufacturing will keep that from happening. Start dealing out economic pain to them ensuring that the next time they come to the table, this won't be a problem. Offer incentives for retaining long-term US-on-US industries, with heavy penalties on using the "Google/Yahoo excuse". Then make it possible to prohibit admissions restrictions/funding structures for US citizens for higher education.
Make them feel pain for taking what has been ours.
China is an authoritarian capitalist country and they're eating your lunch. A well placed "export" of arms and/or a strong policy against trading with countries of that profile would take care of that problem nicely.
By manufacturing stuff in China, corporations are able to save lots of money, and make much bigger profits. Corporate profits are far more important to the elites in Washington than national security. Explain to them that the downtime caused by the inferior quality would cost more over time in service.
Plus, the free-trade crowd would be angered by such a move, as would the anti-government waste crowd, who would whine about the government paying 10 times as much for something that they could get made in China cheaply. Screw 'em - they've done enough to product quality. Then repeat that the inferior quality would cost more over time.
The wild part is - Gateway has been looking into buying Packard Bell, as has Lenovo Lenovo has dragged the Thinkpad too far down, I'd hate to see what Packard Bell influences would do to it.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Harriet Miers again. As an actual candidate, or to take the heat off the real candidate as done in the Supreme Court to fast-track an Ivy? The problem is that who else in his circle of friends is not an Ivy, and can do that exact job without it backfiring is a very limited pool.
That means there's another candidate with some exposure to an Ivy - since it's hard to find someone who isn't in that administration. Even then, it hasn't been a large sign of competence either, more like the lack of it.
No, I dont think they've gotten rid of Elaine Chao. Even with all of the China bashing that's gone on, and her connections with pro-China entities, she might survive unscathed.
However, people will buy these more expensive cars because they are of higher quality. Sounds like you haven't stepped into a Big Three (GM/Ford/CerberusChrysler) car since the 80's.
Instead, the Big 3 have churned out shitty design that nobody wants to buy after shitty design that nobody wants to buy. Newsflash, even the foreign makes overuse plastic as well (before any "ricing").
Food for thought: where are most Big 3 cars assembled? Try somewhere other than the USA. Repeal Taft-Hartley, add a few tariffs and tax cuts that only the Big Three(GM/Ford/CerberusChrysler) could obtain. Then we can answer if it's unions receiving the PATCO Precedent, bad management, and/or something else
Now you were saying something about assembly/content? The most you could do is rip on it being US/Canada. Interesting that you can get a car that isnt from Mexico or some other FTA/MFN and it's not a compact. Or you could check a group that counters the Japan lobby.
Simply put, if the Big 3 had actually focused on building cars that people want to buy versus how to market cars (SUVs) that are convenient to make we wouldn't be having this issue. Cranking out tons of underpowered "Gentleman's Agreement" cars is why GM/Ford/Chrysler still have the Midwest(despite Far Eastern manufacturers making the rare presence north of the Mason-Dixon). At least Germany/Austria understood this one clearly - now if there was some possibility of not having compact I4 death traps be the only thing below $20000.
All of them could be. Because it would decrease the cost to build them, which opens up the potential to either sell them for less, or sell them at the same price with more capability. Either of which would also put them on a better competitive footing with Japan, Korea, and so forth.
That, or find some tariff of sorts to make the imports very distasteful.
Don't worry about it though; even though labor unions seem to have the upper hand at the moment, they are one of the key forces that bring automation to assembly lines. Sure, they have the power to blackmail employers right now; but at the same time those ridiculous wages are being handed to them across the table, management is handing contracts to industrial robotics firms. American unions are destroying their own member's jobs by making sure they cost more to the company than automation does, and that they are more annoying to have around than robots are.
Apparently someone slept through the entire Reagan presidency, or never lived through it(much less live somewhere affected by it).
Yes, and mind that that place is little more than another mouthpiece for Malkin that attempts to be lighter than the "fanatics of Semitism" site (where you're likely to see them offended by Islam enough to wall themselves in).
First, I'd give up the holy war some kernel developers are having with proprietary drivers. Drivers are proprietary because some companies want to release proprietary drivers. Live with it. Stop fighting it and try to make everyone's experience better.
Then you have the HCL problem ala sun4m/sbus and opensolaris allowed to rear its head. Tons of Sparcstations, little documentation. They can have 'em if they want to provide documentation to the point that'd make even Theo's group happy on how to write their own for any other platform. Until then, that'd make you look like Sun "Sparcstations don't exist" Microsystems.
95%+ of Linux users today (a much MUCH different demographic than from 10 years ago) do not care about open drivers as much as working hardware. If you aren't going to help make people's experience with the OS better, then in the words of Ludacris: "move, get out the way, get out the way".
That includes those who get in the way of hardware support. Thus the holy wars will continue.
Nobody 'took our jobs away' they simply outperformed us for a lower price. That required trade policy that was against the wishes of citizens who did not have money on pushing through NAFTA.
Like I said, industries, especially in particular geographical areas, but eventually as a whole, go completely out of business eventually when we have machines or other products to replace them. Then invest in transitioning them so that there is no collapse. Even if it means open admissions to all US universities for citizens at the cost of some pork removal. There is nothing wrong with slowing it down to a manageable pace when things like this happen.
you don't have a 'right to a job' you have to right to apply for a job. Remove Taft-Hartley if you want to cut regulation, renumerate/pardon those affected by its actions past 1980, and ensure it cannot be replaced. While you won't be able to get corporations to give up being a "virtual" individual, repealing that act would put union-busters in their place(including Reagan), history.
You're not going to ever find something that's just right and sit on it for enternity, it'll just keep moving, like the rest of the planet. No justification for the transition to go the way it is now. Allow education to be obtained by citizens with no barriers, immigrants pay up - no exceptions or redefinition of the term "citizen".
If someone else does it for a lower price, then quit your bitching and do one of two things: find another job doing the same thing somewhere else, or, learn to do something else and do that. Or you do the right thing and tariff the country to your level and create a equivalent tax credit for playing by the rules. Our country, our rules - they accept that we take care of our own and trade on our terms.
Corporations pay taxes too and get tax returns, you know. However, they exist only as an end-run about being a group, acting with the rights but not the responsibilities of individuals. Fixed that one for you.
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Make them feel pain for taking what has been ours.
Given that they'll do anything for the Holy Dollar (or Yuan Reminbi), even if it would violate our laws as well.
I'd rather just take the route of starving that country out - or remove the problem altogether.
There's nowhere to go but up short of scraping the bottom - compared to Lenovo that wants to drag the last well-made laptop down a few notches.
At least we have a general idea of who he'd be most likely to select.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Harriet Miers again.
As an actual candidate, or to take the heat off the real candidate as done in the Supreme Court to fast-track an Ivy? The problem is that who else in his circle of friends is not an Ivy, and can do that exact job without it backfiring is a very limited pool.
That means there's another candidate with some exposure to an Ivy - since it's hard to find someone who isn't in that administration. Even then, it hasn't been a large sign of competence either, more like the lack of it.
No, I dont think they've gotten rid of Elaine Chao. Even with all of the China bashing that's gone on, and her connections with pro-China entities, she might survive unscathed.
Now you were saying something about assembly/content? The most you could do is rip on it being US/Canada. Interesting that you can get a car that isnt from Mexico or some other FTA/MFN and it's not a compact. Or you could check a group that counters the Japan lobby. Simply put, if the Big 3 had actually focused on building cars that people want to buy versus how to market cars (SUVs) that are convenient to make we wouldn't be having this issue. Cranking out tons of underpowered "Gentleman's Agreement" cars is why GM/Ford/Chrysler still have the Midwest(despite Far Eastern manufacturers making the rare presence north of the Mason-Dixon). At least Germany/Austria understood this one clearly - now if there was some possibility of not having compact I4 death traps be the only thing below $20000.
All of them could be. Because it would decrease the cost to build them, which opens up the potential to either sell them for less, or sell them at the same price with more capability. Either of which would also put them on a better competitive footing with Japan, Korea, and so forth.
That, or find some tariff of sorts to make the imports very distasteful.
Don't worry about it though; even though labor unions seem to have the upper hand at the moment, they are one of the key forces that bring automation to assembly lines. Sure, they have the power to blackmail employers right now; but at the same time those ridiculous wages are being handed to them across the table, management is handing contracts to industrial robotics firms. American unions are destroying their own member's jobs by making sure they cost more to the company than automation does, and that they are more annoying to have around than robots are.
Apparently someone slept through the entire Reagan presidency, or never lived through it(much less live somewhere affected by it).
With precedents like PATCO and laws like Taft-Hartley, I'm not surprised.
Gold farming, perhaps?
Yes, and mind that that place is little more than another mouthpiece for Malkin that attempts to be lighter than the "fanatics of Semitism" site (where you're likely to see them offended by Islam enough to wall themselves in).
First, I'd give up the holy war some kernel developers are having with proprietary drivers. Drivers are proprietary because some companies want to release proprietary drivers. Live with it. Stop fighting it and try to make everyone's experience better.
Then you have the HCL problem ala sun4m/sbus and opensolaris allowed to rear its head. Tons of Sparcstations, little documentation. They can have 'em if they want to provide documentation to the point that'd make even Theo's group happy on how to write their own for any other platform. Until then, that'd make you look like Sun "Sparcstations don't exist" Microsystems.
95%+ of Linux users today (a much MUCH different demographic than from 10 years ago) do not care about open drivers as much as working hardware. If you aren't going to help make people's experience with the OS better, then in the words of Ludacris: "move, get out the way, get out the way".
That includes those who get in the way of hardware support. Thus the holy wars will continue.
Nothing a tariff can't fix.
Mind that Moka5 would be a good option as it uses the free VMWare Player, and lets him have a distribution run within Windows.
Unfortunately, it'd get to be something like this. It only takes one pissed off person with cash to do it.
Oh, the irony of those who've seen something too similar with NCR (before/after the trainwreck called AT&T GIS).