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U.S. Companies Now Stashing $2 Trillion Overseas

WallStreetVixen said:
There is no adequate metric for capturing what corporations pay in Corporate Taxes. The Effective Corporate Tax Rate is merely the total tax liability of all Corporations divided by the total taxable income of all corporations lumped in together.
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That is the point of the metric.
The problem with this equation is that it lumps in all corporations, regardless of income, and assume all corporations have the same marginal tax bracket. They don't.
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Of course they don't, but the calculation doesn't assume anything of the sort. It is strictly a representation of a central tendency; in this regard it is the average corporate tax rate.
 
DVSentinel said:
Oh hell no, I wouldn't be happy. We would still have to feed and take care of them then and still get nothing but trouble back from our efforts.

Actions, not believes. You can have whatever belief you want, but act against me based upon it and I will dub thee "enemy".

A socialist using freedom and liberty, that is funny. A socialist they only get as far as Free in freedom and think it means they are owned something they haven't earned. They think liberty means making everyone else a slave to their philosophy.
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You're authoritarian nature shows so clearly. "Sure you can believe some things, but once you might do some stuff I disagree with you better get locked up or executed".
 
TheDemSocialist said:
You're authoritarian nature shows so clearly. "Sure you can believe some things, but once you might do some stuff I disagree with you better get locked up or executed".
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Nope. Don't give a damn what you do as long it doesn't affect me and mine. I know your a socialist, but really, not everyone else in the world thinks like one.
 
DVSentinel said:
Nope.
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You spoke differently earlier


Don't give a damn what you do as long it doesn't affect me and mine. I know your a socialist, but really, not everyone else in the world thinks like one.
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Did I say everyone in the world agrees and thinks like me?
 
clownboy said:
Hah! Really, you don't seem to understand that dividend and share buybacks are payments on investments. These investors are large and small, American and not. Salaries and retirements are paid from the proceeds. That 3.3 billion you mention is as a direct result of globalization.
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Actually the reason for so many recent corporate buybacks is that CEO and management bonuses are based on stock prices in these corporations, it has nothing to do with "investors".
 
TheDemSocialist said:
You spoke differently earlier




Did I say everyone in the world agrees and thinks like me?
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Did I? Or is it you just don't comprehend?

No, but you assume they think like you. Very evident in many of the post as you assume others are just repeating propaganda, like you do, instead of actually thinking for themselves. It's called projection, you do it all the time.
 
Lol, even when trickle down is demonstratably proven to be a failure and nothing more than nonsense, people still come out of the woodwork to defend it.
 
ReverendHellh0und said:
So, lets pretend they bring all the money back? what happens? it gets confiscated to the coporate government we have and redistributed right back to them, and the politicians cronies.


Government is too big. over taxes, and should be cut into about a third.
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Another post inadvertently proving that "trickle down" is a joke and why it cold never and has never worked.
 
gdgyva said:
California used to have one of the best economies in the states....what happened?

Why are companies moving out of that state and into friendlier tax states?

Do you suppose that our tax policies as a nation are doing the same basic thing?

Think on it......
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Other states are luring corporations with benefits like "no taxes for 10 years" and other such things. Then after those 10 years the corporations flee overseas.
 
Kushinator said:
That is the point of the metric. Of course they don't, but the calculation doesn't assume anything of the sort. It is strictly a representation of a central tendency; in this regard it is the average corporate tax rate.
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It doesn't assume anything if you understand what the data represents. Most people don't, so it helps to put things in perspective.

When people hear the world 'Corporation,' they think of Walmart, McDonalds, Apple, Microsoft, Exxon, Cisco, and all of the other large caps that are supposedly making all of our lives miserable. Most Corporations are not like that. If anything, considering that Corporations are people to, they are the 1%.

Considering that we have effective tax rates for individuals making a particular amount of income, the same should be considered for Corporations in that regard.
 
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