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Why is the GOP so scared of gay people?
Shadyacres:
--- Quote from: "Whooter" --- We need to get this economy going again. Forcing companies to move overseas to avoid the tax increases isnt the right answer....
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I agree completely, I think we should impose penalties that would make it financially prohibitive to move an american corporation to another country. Why are our biggest companies so horribly unpatriotic?
Shadyacres:
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--- Quote ---I don't know why the Republican party is so terrified of homosexuals, but my guess is they think that queers are somehow costing them money.
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They do cost more money.
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Really? How?
Whooter:
--- Quote from: "Shadyacres" ---
--- Quote from: "Whooter" --- We need to get this economy going again. Forcing companies to move overseas to avoid the tax increases isnt the right answer....
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I agree completely, I think we should impose penalties that would make it financially prohibitive to move an american corporation to another country. Why are our biggest companies so horribly unpatriotic?
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Patriotic is doing what is best for the country. If companies stayed and allowed themselves to be out-competed by foreign companies then that would be unpatriotic and would cause massive unemployment and cause a huge trade deficit. If they are forced out of the country by high taxes at least they are still American based companies out there which could be easily brought back home with some tax incentives.
Maybe at some point in the future a new president may feel it worthy to keep the companies on US soil and employ Americans instead of foreigners.
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Froderik:
Q: Why are gay Saudis a big dilemma for Republicans?
A: Because they're gays with oil.
Anne Bonney:
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Driving out businesses? Are you high? You mean the businesses that pay virtually NO taxes, but still somehow get refunds? The infrastructure used to be supported by the tax base, the corporate part of which has gradually disappeared since the Reagan administration. The bad decisions were the ones that allowed corporations to weasel out of their obligations to their country. What was the corporate tax rate under Eisenhower? Or Nixon? Highly paid lawyers and accountants have been chipping away at those tax codes, finding ever more creative loopholes and shelters, for DECADES. An acceleration occurs whenever someone named Bush is anywhere near the White House;
http://www.reclaimdemocracy.org/corpora ... lummet.php
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:notworthy: :notworthy:
Jobs started going overseas when Reagan started his "trickle down" theory.
http://www.majorityleader.gov/content/r ... g-business
The Real Republican Agenda: Send Jobs Overseas, Helping Big Business
Today Republicans unveiled their agenda to go back to the failed economic policies that led to the deepest recession in generations. Just as we expected, the focus is on help for the wealthy over the middle class and big corporations over small businesses. A rundown of the Real Republican Agenda:
Outsourcing Jobs
Republicans have voted several times against stopping the outsourcing of American jobs. And despite the fact that stopping outsourcing received the most votes on the “America Speaks Out” website, Republicans did not include it in their agenda unveiled today.
Fighting for Big Corporations
Republicans continue to fight for policies that favor big corporations over small businesses. Republicans are fighting for an extension of tax cuts for the wealthy, claiming they want to protect small businesses. But many of the “small businesses” they say they want to protect are actually billion dollar firms that structure themselves as partnerships, billionaire hedge fund managers and movie stars. Additionally, many of the 3% of “small businesses” in the highest bracket aren’t small at all – they’re big, Fortune 500 corporations. Many of these corporations actually filed regular corporate taxes before 2001, and are now exploiting a loophole by changing their tax status to pay as “individuals” specifically because Bush cut individual rates.
No Help For Small Businesses
Republicans have voted against measures that would help small businesses, including:
* The Small Business Tax Relief Act, would have strengthened our economy in two ways: reducing the paperwork burden on small businesses, leaving them more time and resources to invest in job creation; and ending the tax loopholes that encourage large multinational corporations to ship jobs overseas.
* Small Business Jobs and Credit Act, which boosts lending to small businesses by investing capital in community and smaller banks under terms that become more favorable to participating banks as they increase their total loans to small businesses
* Small Business and Infrastructure Jobs Tax Act allows a 100% exclusion from gross income of gain from the sale of qualified small business stock acquired after March 15, 2010, and before January 1, 2012 and increases the tax deduction for business start-up expenditures in 2010 and 2011
* Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act provides tax incentives for hiring new employees that were previously unemployed and extends the Recovery Act provision that would allow small businesses to write-off capital expenditures up to $250,000
* FY 2010 Appropriations increases funding to revitalize the SBA after eight years of Bush-era budget cuts and provides $28 billion in new SBA lending
Click here to read in pdf. http://www.majorityleader.gov/docupload ... siness.pdf
--- Quote ---I don't know why the Republican party is so terrified of homosexuals, but my guess is they think that queers are somehow costing them money.
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My theory, two reasons:
1. They think the Big Bad Bible doesn't like it
2. So many of them are gay and in the closet and need to come out heavily against the gays to make themselves look good in the eyes of the Fundies.
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