corporations nervous

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"Corporations nervous about participating in Republican National Convention with Donald Trump as likely nominee"

Enough said!

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Corporations nervous about Hillary being elected as President. Enough said.

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Corporations are making record profits under President Obama and will continue under President Clinton.

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Corporations are making record profits under President Obama and will continue under President Clinton.

And record taxes as well.

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Corporations are making record profits under President Obama and will continue under President Clinton.

And Obama had what to do with that??

Please do not insult us by claiming it happened on his watch....which it most certainly is. To alledge that any success of corporate America's bottom line is attributed to ANYTHING done by Obama is :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:.

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And Obama had what to do with that??

Please do not insult us by claiming it happened on his watch....which it most certainly is. To alledge that any success of corporate America's bottom line is attributed to ANYTHING done by Obama is :1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:.

Remember Obama's statement, "You didn't build that." He and the Democrats have no problem taking the credit for the success of others.

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Remember Obama's statement, "You didn't build that."
Who could forget it?

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Remember Obama's statement, "You didn't build that." He and the Democrats have no problem taking the credit for the success of others.

Oh that one again.....its so easy to take a little snippet from the whole. So this is the whole statement.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.


Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Taken in the whole the remark is true.

Liar Liar pants on fire!!!!!

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Oh that one again.....its so easy to take a little snippet from the whole. So this is the whole statement.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.


Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Taken in the whole the remark is true.

Liar Liar pants on fire!!!!! Thank-you for making sense out of an obscure comment from nowhere.

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Corporations are making record profits under President Obama and will continue under President Clinton.

700 U.S. Companies are now located in Ireland employing 130,000, Their 12.5% Corporate tax rate is a major reason attributable to their profitability. A few you may recognize are Intel, Dell, Boston Scientific, Pfizer, Google, Hewlett Packard, Facebook, and Johnson & Johnson. Four years ago there were a few over 600 based in Ireland. So the profitability of many of our major American Corporations is attributable to shareholder accountability and a fiscal need to move their headquarters out of Obama's 35% Corporate tax coffin here in the USA. Ford investing billions in a plant in Mexico and Carrier moving also. These examples are just the tip of the iceberg. So many of these "record profits" were created by escaping from "under President Obama". Corporate America is a lot smarter than our Political Good Ole Boys Club, and will continue to do what is necessary to stay profitable.

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Oh that one again.....its so easy to take a little snippet from the whole. So this is the whole statement.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet.


Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business — you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.



Taken in the whole the remark is true.

Liar Liar pants on fire!!!!!

Somebody else made that happen. Yeah right, tell that to someone who has worked 60+ hours a week for years just to keep a business solvent. You liberals always love to take credit for someone else's success and hard work. What would Obama know about starting a business?

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Somebody else made that happen. Yeah right, tell that to someone who has worked 60+ hours a week for years just to keep a business solvent. You liberals always love to take credit for someone else's success and hard work. What would Obama know about starting a business?

He wouldn't know anything about work because he never had a job. He is a product of affirmative action, being carried along and subsidized. I can understand why he would make such comments, because all he knows is the product of anything he has is due to someone else's efforts. That's why he believes that "you didn't build it, someone else did."

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Obama is about as qualified to run or start a business as he was/is to be president!!

Just look at what he has not done as president.

And equally important and completely ineffective, what he has done.....end running the system.

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Somebody else made that happen. Yeah right, tell that to someone who has worked 60+ hours a week for years just to keep a business solvent. You liberals always love to take credit for someone else's success and hard work. What would Obama know about starting a business?

He wouldn't know anything about work because he never had a job. He is a product of affirmative action, being carried along and subsidized. I can understand why he would make such comments, because all he knows is the product of anything he has is due to someone else's efforts. That's why he believes that "you didn't build it, someone else did."

That's the problem with most die hard liberals...they lucked out so they don't know the hardships others went through to get where/what they did. Most women are like that too, if they have a job, they have these EASY jobs (compared to the physical jobs many men do) and have no comprehension what it REALLY takes to get things done. They sit inside at a desk while the REAL work gets done outside in the heat, cold, rain, wind. I'm against women in the work force in general, they should be doing their ONLY job...raising their children to be the best people they can be. Childless women, have at it, do whatever you can quality for...REALLY qualify for...and are willing to do. Don't SAY your a fireman if you're never in a burning building. Don't SAY you're a soldier when you work in the admin office. Don't SAY you're equal to men, when you're not. BE equal or get out of the way. For most women...someone else DID build it!

It's the same with race "equality", I'm tired of the lies about it. Either BE equal, or shut up about it. You can't say you're equal when all the standards are lowered. I'm not going to be an NFL linebacker. To get me that position would require lowering the standards...a lot. So, I don't try to be a linebacker. I don't push and push to be a linebacker. Women and minorities need to learn this lesson. Do what you're made to do, do what you're good at. Don't try to be a 4'11" 97 pound linebacker... Don't try to be the boss with an IQ below 100.

Nature made us what we are, we're different, work with it, not against it.

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That's the problem with most die hard liberals...they lucked out so they don't know the hardships others went through to get where/what they did. Most women are like that too, if they have a job, they have these EASY jobs (compared to the physical jobs many men do) and have no comprehension what it REALLY takes to get things done. They sit inside at a desk while the REAL work gets done outside in the heat, cold, rain, wind. I'm against women in the work force in general, they should be doing their ONLY job...raising their children to be the best people they can be. Childless women, have at it, do whatever you can quality for...REALLY qualify for...and are willing to do. Don't SAY your a fireman if you're never in a burning building. Don't SAY you're a soldier when you work in the admin office. Don't SAY you're equal to men, when you're not. BE equal or get out of the way. For most women...someone else DID build it!

It's the same with race "equality", I'm tired of the lies about it. Either BE equal, or shut up about it. You can't say you're equal when all the standards are lowered. I'm not going to be an NFL linebacker. To get me that position would require lowering the standards...a lot. So, I don't try to be a linebacker. I don't push and push to be a linebacker. Women and minorities need to learn this lesson. Do what you're made to do, do what you're good at. Don't try to be a 4'11" 97 pound linebacker... Don't try to be the boss with an IQ below 100.

Nature made us what we are, we're different, work with it, not against it.

Wrong thread. There is another one related to your "women's equality."
And even though I can agree with you to a certain extent on women not being equal to men, you are generalizing and encompassing ALL women. Women are equal to men in just about every way other than physically and "generally" speaking, emotionally. And the second part is only due to how they may have been brought up. If they can do the exact job of a man, then they deserve the same pay. But, this is not the thread for it.

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Wrong thread. There is another one related to your "women's equality."
And even though I can agree with you to a certain extent on women not being equal to men, you are generalizing and encompassing ALL women. Women are equal to men in just about every way other than physically and "generally" speaking, emotionally. And the second part is only due to how they may have been brought up. If they can do the exact job of a man, then they deserve the same pay. But, this is not the thread for it.

The highlights above say it all.

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Somebody else made that happen. Yeah right, tell that to someone who has worked 60+ hours a week for years just to keep a business solvent. You liberals always love to take credit for someone else's success and hard work. What would Obama know about starting a business?Didn't he mean that someone before you built your business built the roads and bridges? Didn't he mean that we are all standing on the shoulders of giants? Didn't he mean that we should be grateful for what out parents and their parents built for us?

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Didn't he mean that someone before you built your business built the roads and bridges? Didn't he mean that we are all standing on the shoulders of giants? Didn't he mean that we should be grateful for what out parents and their parents built for us?

Did he say what he meant? Or, was he insulting and talking down to everyone, just as he always does? It appears that the Harvard grad has a difficult time speaking in a comprehensible manner.

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Didn't he mean that someone before you built your business built the roads and bridges? Didn't he mean that we are all standing on the shoulders of giants? Didn't he mean that we should be grateful for what out parents and their parents built for us?

No one before me built my business. It was started from scratch. And, the building of 100,000 additional roads and bridges would not have made it any easier for me to succeed...hard work and dedication made the difference, not your roads and bridges.

I guess when you attribute your success (Obama's success in this case) to riding on the backs of others, you begin to think that everyone else should do the same. Liberals.

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No one before me built my business. It was started from scratch. And, the building of 100,000 additional roads and bridges would not have made it any easier for me to succeed...hard work and dedication made the difference, not your roads and bridges.

I guess when you attribute your success (Obama's success in this case) to riding on the backs of others, you begin to think that everyone else should do the same. Liberals.
How did you get to work?

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How did you get to work?

I walked.

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Didn't he mean that someone before you built your business built the roads and bridges? Didn't he mean that we are all standing on the shoulders of giants? Didn't he mean that we should be grateful for what out parents and their parents built for us?

You infer from your post that the availability of roads and bridges are the key to ones success. Tell that to the less fortunate who sleep under the bridges along the interstate...so much for Obama's theory of success based on the availability of roads and bridges.

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You infer from your post that the availability of roads and bridges are the key to ones success. Tell that to the less fortunate who sleep under the bridges along the interstate...so much for Obama's theory of success based on the availability of roads and bridges.I'm grateful that I was born in a first world country. Like you I want to help the less fortunate.

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I'm grateful that I was born in a first world country. Like you I want to help the less fortunate.

Join a church and donate your time and money. You liberals want to help others by taking from someone else; by using others earnings.

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You infer from your post that the availability of roads and bridges are the key to ones success. Tell that to the less fortunate who sleep under the bridges along the interstate...so much for Obama's theory of success based on the availability of roads and bridges.

Hey, they must have strong bridges that don't leak to make good shelters for those less fortunate. :smiley:

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Somebody else made that happen. Yeah right, tell that to someone who has worked 60+ hours a week for years just to keep a business solvent. You liberals always love to take credit for someone else's success and hard work. What would Obama know about starting a business?

Since you know everything, tell us about all the corporate welfare that was received! Be fair and unbiased.

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Since you know everything, tell us about all the corporate welfare that was received! Be fair and unbiased.
Corporate welfare is a term that analogizes corporate subsidies to welfare payments for the poor. The term is often used to describe a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations or selected corporations, and implies that corporations are much less needy of such treatment than the poor. The term is used interchangeably with crony capitalism; to the extent that there is a difference, the corporate welfare might be restricted only to direct government subsidies of major corporations, excluding tax loopholes and all manner of regulatory and trade decisions, which in practice could be much larger than any direct subsidies. The term, "Corporate Welfare", was reportedly invented in 1956 by Ralph Nader; conservatives like Grover Norquist prefer "Crony capitalism".

What does that have to do with the projects of the WPA that help make this a first world country?
What does this have to do that I appreciate the work of the generations before me, the roads, bridges, infrastructure and you seem to feel entitled.

Wealth was fairly distributed back then. Under Eisenhower the very, very wealthy paid 90% in taxes. Did you appreciate Eisenhower?

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Corporate welfare is a term that analogizes corporate subsidies to welfare payments for the poor. The term is often used to describe a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations or selected corporations, and implies that corporations are much less needy of such treatment than the poor. The term is used interchangeably with crony capitalism; to the extent that there is a difference, the corporate welfare might be restricted only to direct government subsidies of major corporations, excluding tax loopholes and all manner of regulatory and trade decisions, which in practice could be much larger than any direct subsidies. The term, "Corporate Welfare", was reportedly invented in 1956 by Ralph Nader; conservatives like Grover Norquist prefer "Crony capitalism".

What does that have to do with the projects of the WPA that help make this a first world country?
What does this have to do that I appreciate the work of the generations before me, the roads, bridges, infrastructure and you seem to feel entitled.

Wealth was fairly distributed back then. Under Eisenhower the very, very wealthy paid 90% in taxes. Did you appreciate Eisenhower?

Tax myth. No one actually paid 90%. After the "marginal tax rate" it was more like 40%. Just guesstimating, of course. Here's a table of tax rates to tax revenues. Notice, no big difference between then and now. And the tax rate was actually higher before Eisenhower, something like 94% and then went down to about 91% during Eisenhower.

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Corporate welfare is a term that analogizes corporate subsidies to welfare payments for the poor. The term is often used to describe a government's bestowal of money grants, tax breaks, or other special favorable treatment on corporations or selected corporations, and implies that corporations are much less needy of such treatment than the poor. The term is used interchangeably with crony capitalism; to the extent that there is a difference, the corporate welfare might be restricted only to direct government subsidies of major corporations, excluding tax loopholes and all manner of regulatory and trade decisions, which in practice could be much larger than any direct subsidies. The term, "Corporate Welfare", was reportedly invented in 1956 by Ralph Nader; conservatives like Grover Norquist prefer "Crony capitalism".

What does that have to do with the projects of the WPA that help make this a first world country?
What does this have to do that I appreciate the work of the generations before me, the roads, bridges, infrastructure and you seem to feel entitled.

Wealth was fairly distributed back then. Under Eisenhower the very, very wealthy paid 90% in taxes. Did you appreciate Eisenhower?

You need to elaborate what you mean by the wealth being fairly distributed.
The only change of significance is the population is much bigger now, more people are now dependent upon the government.....then and now....... the haves had/have it however the got it and the have nots had/have what they worked hard for.....

So please explain.

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Tax myth. No one actually paid 90%. After the "marginal tax rate" it was more like 40%. Just guesstimating, of course. Here's a table of tax rates to tax revenues. Notice, no big difference between then and now. And the tax rate was actually higher before Eisenhower, something like 94% and then went down to about 91% during Eisenhower.
During the eight years of the Eisenhower presidency, from 1953 to 1961, the top marginal rate was 91 percent. (It was 92 percent the year he came into office.)

What does it mean, though? For the duration of Eisenhower’s presidency, that rate affected individuals making $200,000 or more per year or couples making $400,000 and above per year.

In 2015 dollars, that's roughly $1.7 million for an individual and $3.4 million for a couple.

Today the tax brackets are adjusted for inflation, but are exceptionally lower than in Eisenhower’s day. The top rate in 2015 is 39.6 percent, applied to single people making $413,200 or more per year, or married couples filing jointly making $464,850 or more annually. If we went back to 1954, single people making the equivalent of $413,200 would be in a 72 percent tax bracket, while a couple making $464,850 would end up in a 75 percent bracket.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/15/bernie-s/income-tax-rates-were-90-percent-under-eisenhower-/

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During the eight years of the Eisenhower presidency, from 1953 to 1961, the top marginal rate was 91 percent. (It was 92 percent the year he came into office.)

What does it mean, though? For the duration of Eisenhower’s presidency, that rate affected individuals making $200,000 or more per year or couples making $400,000 and above per year.

In 2015 dollars, that's roughly $1.7 million for an individual and $3.4 million for a couple.

Today the tax brackets are adjusted for inflation, but are exceptionally lower than in Eisenhower’s day. The top rate in 2015 is 39.6 percent, applied to single people making $413,200 or more per year, or married couples filing jointly making $464,850 or more annually. If we went back to 1954, single people making the equivalent of $413,200 would be in a 72 percent tax bracket, while a couple making $464,850 would end up in a 75 percent bracket.

Income tax rates were 90 percent under Eisenhower, Sanders says | PolitiFact (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/nov/15/bernie-s/income-tax-rates-were-90-percent-under-eisenhower-/)

I believe you have forgotten to take into consideration that the marginal tax rate means, AFTER you deduct. Deductions on the 91% ended up meaning an approx tax rate of about 40%. Look at the table above and you can see that the tax revenues still ended up evening out.