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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-15-06 06:29 PM
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6. One of my pet peeves is our government giving contracts to ANY
company that purposely has their headquarters outside the U.S. to avoid paying taxes. They should be treated like any other foreign country, although this particular Administration is not against foreign countries buying our ports, etc. I truly believe that some sort of health care for all Americans would relieve companies from that burden, which is enormous, and no one can argue with them on that. We need to make it more attractive for companies to have jobs here, and if that needs to be tax benefits, so be it. The tax benefits wouldn't compare to everyday Americans with good jobs paying their taxes. Companies that have their headquarters out of this country should pay maybe tariff taxes or something to that effect for doing any business in the U.S. I'm also leaning toward putting some kind of tap on executives pay - seems some companies are looking for cheap labor, but pay their CEO outlandish salaries. In other words, I don't know. ha
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