A good win

[Guest]

It's hard to argue that this isn't a win for the President and for all of us who are fed up with the dilution of our core businesses.


Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and Ireland-based Allergan Plc formally announced the scrapping of their $160 billion merger on Wednesday, in a big win for President Barack Obama who has been pushing to curb tax-slashing “inversion” deals.

The announcement followed the unveiling of new U.S. Treasury rules on Monday aimed at curbing such deals. The merger would have allowed New York-based Pfizer to cut its tax bill by redomiciling to Ireland, where tax rates are lower.

[Guest]

It's hard to argue that this isn't a win for the President and for all of us who are fed up with the dilution of our core businesses.


Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Pfizer Inc and Ireland-based Allergan Plc formally announced the scrapping of their $160 billion merger on Wednesday, in a big win for President Barack Obama who has been pushing to curb tax-slashing “inversion” deals.

The announcement followed the unveiling of new U.S. Treasury rules on Monday aimed at curbing such deals. The merger would have allowed New York-based Pfizer to cut its tax bill by redomiciling to Ireland, where tax rates are lower.
The luck of the Double Irish:
Double Irish Deception: How Google (http://visualeconomics.creditloan.com/double-irish-deception-how-google-apple-facebook-avoid-paying-taxes/)

And doesn't this fit nicely into Bernie's narrative:
https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-singles-out-top-10-corporate-tax-dodgers/

Am I missing something?

[Guest]

Was this something the Obama administration was working on all along? Or was it Bernie that brought up the issue?

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-singles-out-top-10-corporate-tax-dodgers/

[Guest]

Was this something the Obama administration was working on all along? Or was it Bernie that brought up the issue?

https://berniesanders.com/press-release/sanders-singles-out-top-10-corporate-tax-dodgers/

Obama will claim it since it happened on his watch....even though he does not have the foggiest hint of why it happened or not....the usual.

[Guest]

Was this something the Obama administration was working on all along? Or was it Bernie that brought up the issue?

I put in the wrong link. This is the correct link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/03/18/bernie-sanders-calls-on-treasury-to-stop-pfizer-from-moving-overseas-to-lower-taxes/


I put in the wrong link on the last post,,,sorry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/03/18/bernie-sanders-calls-on-treasury-to-stop-pfizer-from-moving-overseas-to-lower-taxes/

3/18/16

"Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders on Friday called on the Treasury Department to step in to stop a merger involving Pfizer that would allow the pharmaceutical giant to move its headquarters overseas to lower its taxes....................
“Blocking this inversion would not only be sound fiscal policy, it would also act as a strong deterrent to other companies that are contemplating similar tax scams,” Sanders said in the letter sent from his Senate office......
“We’ve received the letter and will respond to the Senator in due course, as appropriate,” a Treasury Department spokesman said in a statement.

Pfizer declined to comment. But the company has previously said that the merger makes strategic sense and is not structured to move jobs outside the United States."

I don't think Obama will take credit if this story is true and Bernie alerted the State Department. I hope Bernie gets the credit and the PR. If Trump sent the letter to the Treasury, it would all over the media by now.

[Guest]

I put in the wrong link on the last post,,,sorry.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2016/03/18/bernie-sanders-calls-on-treasury-to-stop-pfizer-from-moving-overseas-to-lower-taxes/

3/18/16

"Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders on Friday called on the Treasury Department to step in to stop a merger involving Pfizer that would allow the pharmaceutical giant to move its headquarters overseas to lower its taxes....................
“Blocking this inversion would not only be sound fiscal policy, it would also act as a strong deterrent to other companies that are contemplating similar tax scams,” Sanders said in the letter sent from his Senate office......
“We’ve received the letter and will respond to the Senator in due course, as appropriate,” a Treasury Department spokesman said in a statement.

Pfizer declined to comment. But the company has previously said that the merger makes strategic sense and is not structured to move jobs outside the United States."

I don't think Obama will take credit if this story is true and Bernie alerted the State Department. I hope Bernie gets the credit and the PR. If Trump sent the letter to the Treasury, it would all over the media by now.

You meant Obama.....

[Guest]

You meant Obama.....
If you go to google news and search for Obama you get
About 190,000,000 results

Search for Trump, who has only been in politics since august and you get
About 219,000,000 results

Trump stories get read. He's interesting. That's why there are so many of them.

I don't think the President gets half the ink Trump does. Who bother searching for Obama? What about TV? Is it the same on TV?

Google Searches for February in the category of people:
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[off topic but I was surprised to see OJ on the list]

[Guest]

This is the Global Search list of People most searched: [wow]
1Lamar Odom
2Ronda Rousey
3Caitlyn Jenner
4Adele
5Charlie Sheen
6Ruby Rose
7Donald Trump
8Sia
9Dakota Johnson
10Jeremy Clarkson

[Guest]

This is the Global Search list of People most searched: [wow]
1Lamar Odom
2Ronda Rousey
3Caitlyn Jenner
4Adele
5Charlie Sheen
6Ruby Rose
7Donald Trump
8Sia
9Dakota Johnson
10Jeremy Clarkson

Shows how stupid and shallow people are...all entertainers.

[Guest]

Shows how stupid and shallow people are...all entertainers.The list is very revealing.

One of the entertainers is running for president.

According to a 2013 comScore public release [5][6], as of December 2012, Google enjoyed a 65.2% share of web search volume worldwide, with 114.7 billion searches that month.

"Google now processes over 40,000 search queries every second on average (visualize them here), which translates to over 3.5 billion searches per day and 1.2 trillion searches per year worldwide."

Trump is number 7. Google is used worldwide. Why do you think people all over the world are looking into Trump? I think they are nervous.
I wonder if he knows this is going on worldwide.

Pick any dictator or world leader, past or present and ask yourself if the entire world took an interest in that person the first time they ran for office in their entire life would history change.

Trump is the only politician on the list. The rest are celebrities that teens want to know more about. Teens don't want to know more about Trump. He might be the only adult who adults are looking up.