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"The Looting of America" - Vox

The source itself is not credible pretty much everyone except liberals that read it.
If you think is is credible then so is drudge and breitbart as they are about the same.

Just the title is wrong in general.
From what I scanned just more hyperbolic nonsense drivel which is typical.

So no one isn't looting America that is the first thing wrong.
Making our country more competitive in a global economy is a good hung not a bad thing.

Our corporate rate is now in line with the rest of the world.
You seem to have a problem with that. More job investment into the economy is a good thing.

The article has a problem with that as well.

Not sure why. More business = more jobs more jobs = worker demand = higher pay.

More over blown nonsense on the death tax which is just wealth jealousy.

So you favor encouraging more companies to relocate in even lower tax countries overseas where they now will not pay a dime in U.S. taxes? I thought "America first" meant keeping business here?

When the Trump administration issued its framework for tax reform in September, it emphasized the need to build in protections to stop U.S. multinational corporations from “shipping jobs and capital overseas.” These protections were needed because the framework proposed that the United States move from a system of taxing the global profits of U.S. firms to a territorial system, under which their profits would be taxed only in the country where they were earned.
In a territorial system, U.S. corporations would have a strong incentive to move jobs and capital to low or no tax jurisdictions, as compared to a proposed corporate tax rate of 20 percent on U.S. profits.
Republican tax bills have too many loopholes for shipping jobs overseas | TheHill
 
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So you favor encouraging more companies to relocate in even lower tax countries overseas where they now will not pay a dime in U.S. taxes?

Why would they? It makes no sense. Slippery slope fallacy is just that.
He countries that might be lower they really don't want to go for obvious reasons.
 
Why would they? It makes no sense. Slippery slope fallacy is just that.
He countries that might be lower they really don't want to go for obvious reasons.

LOL Yea Because companies don't like to save money on taxes...

Let’s illustrate the problems with the aggregate approach by a simple example. Suppose a U.S. multinational had an aggregate tax rate of 24 percent per year on $1 billion of foreign profits, since they were derived primarily from high tax countries like France and Japan. After this tax bill is enacted into law, the U.S. multinational decides to build factories in Singapore producing $500 million profits per year subject to a tax of 8 percent, and to generate $500 million in profits from intellectual property in Bermuda where they would not be taxed at all.

Republican tax bills have too many loopholes for shipping jobs overseas | TheHill
 
Vox is another liberal rag site like daily kos or media matters.
The source is bunk and crap.

I love how liberals rail against drudge or breitbart but have no problem
Posting liberal hacks sites like vox or motherjones.

Seeking confirmation bias is not unusual but most media bias is by omission.

The NYT is a prime example with their "all the news that's fit to print" slogan - who, exactly, decides what events and facts are "fit" to report?

Obviously, no news source has the staff or bandwidth necessary to report everything but when only one side of a story is presented repeatedly then it becomes fairly clear that bias, rather than resource availability, is the likely cause of such lack of balanced content.
 
The article is a bit partisan and hyperbolic (I don't frequent Vox), to be fair.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/19/16786006/looting-of-america







I've said a few times in the last week or so that I think the Republican party has all but given up on 2018, and they're just shamelessly pushing whatever they can, while they can. It's a sad state American Politics has found itself in, and it's sad that less than a year into Trumps presidency that line is already old, tired, and worn out. I also recently stated that corporate America owns our government. I was wrong. Corporate America runs our government. It costs them less that way, and they don't have to worry about going down with the ship. They just need enough time to loot it. They know time is running out , and now don't even seem to be worried about repercussions, political or otherwise. A biggly section of the Republican party seem to be shamelessly cashing in at the cost of the parties future. The voices of reason in the party are few enough that they're basically throwing sand against the tide.

Pigs at the trough. I've never seen anything like this in the USA. It's like Venezuela or something. Maybe Russia without a strongman leader.
 
Seeking confirmation bias is not unusual but most media bias is by omission.

The NYT is a prime example with their "all the news that's fit to print" slogan - who, exactly, decides what events and facts are "fit" to report?

Obviously, no news source has the staff or bandwidth necessary to report everything but when only one side of a story is presented repeatedly then it becomes fairly clear that bias, rather than resource availability, is the likely cause of such lack of balanced content.

The problem is factual news doesn't sell. We have gone back to the way of yellow journalism. Where any slop can be posted for a news story and no accountability is taken unless the person is caught and there is a public outcry.

It is like we are living with the dan rather syndrome in the media.
 
The constant bickering and fighting between the Republican party and the Democratic party is actually there to serve to distract us from the true reality of the Uber Rich taking advantage of all of us. :2wave:

We aren't smart enough to sort it all out.
 
Seeking confirmation bias is not unusual but most media bias is by omission.

The NYT is a prime example with their "all the news that's fit to print" slogan - who, exactly, decides what events and facts are "fit" to report?

Obviously, no news source has the staff or bandwidth necessary to report everything but when only one side of a story is presented repeatedly then it becomes fairly clear that bias, rather than resource availability, is the likely cause of such lack of balanced content.

Yet another post that has no rebuttal for even one of the points made in the piece. What is your "side of the story" if there even is one. Honestly I believe you have nothing and instead choose to change the topic.
 
The constant bickering and fighting between the Republican party and the Democratic party is actually there to serve to distract us from the true reality of the Uber Rich taking advantage of all of us. :2wave:

We aren't smart enough to sort it all out.

If by "we" you mean Trump supporters I would agree. They are not only "not smart" they have become zombies who only believe what they are told on FOX news.
 
If by "we" you mean Trump supporters I would agree. They are not only "not smart" they have become zombies who only believe what they are told on FOX news.

:roll:

Who was it that was "smart" enough to run Hillary?
 
The article is a bit partisan and hyperbolic (I don't frequent Vox), to be fair.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/19/16786006/looting-of-america







I've said a few times in the last week or so that I think the Republican party has all but given up on 2018, and they're just shamelessly pushing whatever they can, while they can. It's a sad state American Politics has found itself in, and it's sad that less than a year into Trumps presidency that line is already old, tired, and worn out. I also recently stated that corporate America owns our government. I was wrong. Corporate America runs our government. It costs them less that way, and they don't have to worry about going down with the ship. They just need enough time to loot it. They know time is running out , and now don't even seem to be worried about repercussions, political or otherwise. A biggly section of the Republican party seem to be shamelessly cashing in at the cost of the parties future. The voices of reason in the party are few enough that they're basically throwing sand against the tide.



First, I don't see anything that biased in the piece and, if anything it is a bias FOR a certain type of dishonesty, a cynicism with which, you concur in your closing argument.

And I agree, to a point, that the Republicans have tossed 2018 to the dogs, knowing that as most of those up for grabs are solid red. And, in their cynicism, are playing the odds "how bad can it get" and "we have a year to buy some votes" etc. Time is both a politicians best friend and worst downfall.

From what I have read, it does not appear the message of Alabama has been noted nor understood. What I noted most was not the media level bull****, but how a gang of middle class black women banded together to oust one of the elite and privileged. Perhaps it is the narrowness of victory or the arrogance of being "in", but that gang of middle class should be THE wake up call of all wake up calls. History is riddled with more cases where "a gang" of anybody has thrown over the elite and privileged not the least of which being the French Revolution and, of course 1776.

The question becomes who's tale will be believed by rank and file Republicans, whether as you suggest the elite of the elite are lining their pockets OR that Trump is the savior of American "family values".

What I found most stunning and correct was "...if not for the fact that hundreds of Republican Party members of Congress wake up each morning and decide anew that they are indifferent to the myriad financial conflicts of interest in which Trump and his family are enmeshed. Moral and political responsibility for the looting ultimately rests on the shoulders of the GOP members of Congress who decided that the appropriate reaction to Trump’s inauguration was to start smashing and grabbing as much as possible for themselves and their donors."
 
Trump is far worse than Hillary in every way. She would not have signed a tax giveaway for the rich either.

Hillary and the rest of the Clinton criminal cartel would have sold us out to the Russians by now.

The Clintons and the Obama's have been so good for the Democratic party. They have lost more than 1,000 seats in Federal and States Governments. :2wave:

A serial rapist and an incompetent and lying criminal loosing POTUS candidate are something to be proud of...
 
Hillary and the rest of the Clinton criminal cartel would have sold us out to the Russians by now.

The Clintons and the Obama's have been so good for the Democratic party. They have lost more than 1,000 seats in Federal and States Governments. :2wave:

A serial rapist and an incompetent and lying criminal loosing POTUS candidate are something to be proud of...

LOL Trump has already sold out to Putin. He has no choice either. Putin owns him.

The landscape will be changing in November. Trump is likely to be out by then too.:lol:
 
Vox is to opinions what assholes are to everyone.




The article is a bit partisan and hyperbolic (I don't frequent Vox), to be fair.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/12/19/16786006/looting-of-america







I've said a few times in the last week or so that I think the Republican party has all but given up on 2018, and they're just shamelessly pushing whatever they can, while they can. It's a sad state American Politics has found itself in, and it's sad that less than a year into Trumps presidency that line is already old, tired, and worn out. I also recently stated that corporate America owns our government. I was wrong. Corporate America runs our government. It costs them less that way, and they don't have to worry about going down with the ship. They just need enough time to loot it. They know time is running out , and now don't even seem to be worried about repercussions, political or otherwise. A biggly section of the Republican party seem to be shamelessly cashing in at the cost of the parties future. The voices of reason in the party are few enough that they're basically throwing sand against the tide.
 
LOL Trump has already sold out to Putin. He has no choice either. Putin owns him.

The landscape will be changing in November. Trump is likely to be out by then too.:lol:

With the lack of message from the hate filled left, and the lack money from donors, things better change soon!

The left doesn't do well in mid terms historically. It was easy to cheat in Alabama, much harder on the day of a national election. With anti White Perez at the helm of the DNC screaming racism, you have to wonder how that message that helped drive whites to Trump will really play out! :mrgreen:
 
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