don't forget the automated machines have about as many people working on them as would have been doing what the machines now do. Its called maintenance. No the machine can't work 24 because they'd breakdown and there'd be real problems on the line.

Until there is a power cut. Humans can still use a hammer and a screwdriver, but they'd probably want time and a half for working in the dark.... And in any case machines still need humans to program them and re-progam them, and machine minders to look after them.

Behind the scenes deals are done every day between companies and the IRS. We'll register in Bermuda unless you give us a deal.

Good Lord above - RUSH !!! Where the devil have you been young man?

when the jobs are moved to india, it makes a difference where the jobs are.

The corporations love games of move centers around (even within the USA) to shake longer term employees and therefore benefits loose. With many dual income families struggling, people get hurt so corporations can save pennies.

Giving additional tax breaks further aggravates the situation.

Tax it where they sell it.

Well, sort of, if the following:

"[fictional character Renahan modelled on real world Hickman] is born with a wonderful, free, light consciousness -- [resulting from] the absolute lack of social instinct or herd feeling. He does not understand, because he has no organ for understanding, the necessity, meaning, or importance of other people ... Other people do not exist for him and he does not understand why they should." (Journals, pp. 27, 21-22; emphasis hers.)

does accurately sum up her opinion of William Edward Hickman, then I don't think a likening to Thomas Harris is appropriate (unless he has made similarly admiring statements about a real world sociopath). Nor do I think it's without any real relevance, for it possibly talks to the kind of individualism she found admirable, which appears from the above to be a complete lack of understanding of the importance of others.

People who have never developed past that stage of infancy, where everything is about themselves, are the only followers of this woman.

Her writings put the meat on the bones of a lifestyle that is shallow, self concerned and ignorant of the commons. Anyone attempting to live this way at any time in human history, other than the present, would have been banished from the community. Contribute to the society you are a part of or be gone. There is no room for the frivolous.

The foolishness of thinking one can survive as an island shows an absolute break with reality. I'm sure that over the course of time, there have been many who went off to attempt to fulfill this desire but they seem to have not passed on their genes. That means they died alone in the wilderness.

Rand wasn't a prophet or a philosopher. She was a selfish, shallow and foolish woman with poor judgment when it came to the realities of life.
The only reason her works survive is the need of the super self concerned to have external justifications for their own greed and lack of personal development.

" Try a new line. That one does not fit. Experience, I have seen it happen.
Corporation gets a bigger break, corporation loads up the employees harder, moves more offshore. Lose/lose proposition.

Meh. That's silly.

Ever wonder why you don't buy your oranges from the orange tree growers in Chicago?

Besides the fact the orange trees suffer too much frost damage to grow commercially in chicago?

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She wouldn't agree with any of it because she believed that there should be no such thing as gov't fiscal policy.

Exactly.

Knowing that she thought of the masses as lice and parasites is enough for me to form an opinion.

You can cling to your illusions of hightened levels of awareness if you wish, this woman was a complete whack-job and only spoke for those who's sense of entitlement is out of proportion with their contribution to society.

This woman's name has come up in here before as a shining light for the rightists.
I have not read her junk, nor am I inclined to ever do so.

And yet so much of current American fiscal policy is derived from her work. Scary huh?

Successful corporations are paying no taxes. The executives are paying very little.

"Why, 'cuz you sez so?

" Try a new line. That one does not fit. Experience, I have seen it happen.
Corporation gets a bigger break, corporation loads up the employees harder, moves more offshore. Lose/lose proposition.

As I said, tax all the money coming in and out of the country.

extinct major corporations make room for smaller more agile business to fill in where they have failed.

Excess profits that are merely offshored (yes money can be taxed before it leaves these shores, or comes in, and should be) simply speed the death of ANY income.

There is no trickle down. It is a lie.

Welcome back, Rush!

So what you are saying is that G.E. have passed these tax cuts onto the American people.

So those millions of dollars they have sitting in offshore bank accounts doing nothing aren't there? They've been used to cut prices?

So you are saying that the price of Oil and Gas has gone down because of these tax breaks? Oh...they have trains too..train fares have gone down right?

G.E. has NOT passed these tax breaks on to the American people. It's a nice theory you have, but reality tells a different story.

Our underpaid worker at Walmart might be saving money on their shower curtain and bath mat, but her rent has gone up, her fuel costs have gone up. her bus fares have gone up and she is paying a larger proportion of her wages on taxes than Walmart. I think she'd be better off with a pay rise and a tax cut, because Walmart are not going to give her that money out the goodness of their hearts. They charge for products what the market can bear, it doesn't matter how big or small their profits are.

He sure hasn't. I'll say it again. If you don't tax corporations then they just run on profit They also don't need to be worried about being fiscally lean or responsible.

Corporations can only pass along their tax burden to a certain extent and still maintain their level if profit. At a certain point people slow then stop buying products when the price becomes to high. That is the point where corporations start reducing their profit margin and megabonuses to maintain product viability.

I recall the several Corporatist apologists declare that Corporations shouldn't be rescued but be allowed to fail or thrive on their own. Knowing you are going to be taxed the same thing still applies. If you can't survive under the conditions then your extinction is inevitable

Protect the poor by not taxing the corporatists.
Rush, you're haven't missed a beat.

Under Kennedy, the highest marginal tax rate in the U.S. was 90%.

I'm going to call BS here. The subject is not personal income tax rates.

Is that so? It must be true because you said so.

That, my dear, sounds strangely familiar... 8^]

It was a deliberate homage. :D