Big business has brought all these foreigners in to avoid paying taxes, pay a decent wage to us, and benefits. They have successfully bought up all the small companies and divided them up and sold them off. Like SBC when AT and T just bought them up? Small means smaller than, because the little guy cant even own a bar without being a TGI Fridays, or a Bennigans, or Beni Hana's With the Republicans it is a fact they are arm and arm with big business. Especially this administration, Oil, Munitions, Guns, Nukes. Are any of you seriously considering voting Republican? Don't you have ideas that you would like to have your own business? Do you think you have a chance? And if so how many others will be that lucky if you vote Republican?
2007-01-23 05:10:39 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
There are many people who are aware of what you are saying.
Even Microsoft (though in favor of it) had a lot of internal memorandums about the difference between Commoditized (free Enterprise) and de-Commoditized (Capitalist ) businesses and how the only way to make huge profits is to de-Commoditize your self and Commoditize everyone else on your food chain.
These Memos were leaked and are widely available on the internet as the Halloween Documents.
Thom Hartmann also wrote a good book on the subject called Screwed! that deals with that on many levels.
2007-01-23 05:47:17 · answer #1 · answered by Freedem 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The biggest benefit the big corporations have received in the last 10 years was the '97 Tax Act and the regulations thereunder - especially the regulations. That was Clinton.
Not that I have a problem with it.
A corporation is a form of doing business. There is no "they" other than the shareholders. And since you can get on Yahoo! Answers you can also get on Yahoo! Finance and quickly discover that most of the largest corporations' institutional ownership is over 50%. Institutional ownership means pension funds, mutual funds which you own through your 401-K - - - i.e., "they" are "us." Whatever you perceive you are losing through competing with foreigners for your job, you are gaining in your retirement account - that is if you contribute to it.
2007-01-23 13:16:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
because of this and frankly many other factors - i will have to think long and hard before ever ever ever ever voting republican ever again.
they made a mistake of a generation in 2000 when they chose bush as their nomination for president.
the republican congress has done almost nothing other than rubber stamp bush's preposterous policies.
now i think the republicans need some very tough love indeed.
i also think that many corporations are in need of tough love as well.
as americans, who's voting voice is muted by a lack of real options at the voting booth, our only real recourse is to vote with our wallets.
at the end of the day, everyone wants YOUR money.
don't give it to them.
don't buy at walmart any longer - they are terrible for the american trade deficit.
pay off your credit cards and chop them up and cancel the accounts - send a message to these would-be extortionists.
i did, i paid off my credit cards and now only have debit cards - i won't do business with criminal syndicates like chase.
these are but a couple examples of many of our corporate citizens who have done many things in order to shift their tax burden onto those who they still want to buy their products.
look into it and don't buy from those who you think don't represent the things you love in america - period!
2007-01-23 13:22:44 · answer #3 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We have returned to the age of robber Baron's. Teddy Roosevelt tried to end their reign but the Republicans have slowly brought them back by destroying the laws that regulate them. We need the general public to become aware of these people that are robbing America blind and killing the middle class.
2007-01-23 13:18:17 · answer #4 · answered by diogenese_97 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋