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Donald Trump has a novel idea - We should lower corporate tax rates to 15%. That way more businesses will want to set up shop in America, or stay here.
This is called Trickle Down Economics, or 'Reaganomics'. He's a real thinker, people. Innovator. He wants to give America a golden shower, moreso than any of his predecessors!
Trickle Down Reaganomics doesn't fucking work. It never has.
Can someone please explain to me what I don't understand about this?
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Bigbadwooof]
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Bigbadwooof]
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Bigbadwooof said: Donald Trump has a novel idea - We should lower corporate tax rates to 15%. That way more businesses will want to set up shop in America, or stay here.
This is called Trickle Down Economics, or 'Reaganomics'. He's a real thinker, people. Innovator. He wants to give America a golden shower, moreso than any of his predecessors!
Trickle Down Reaganomics doesn't fucking work. It never has.
Can someone please explain to me what I don't understand about this?
Trump apologists unite!
Sometimes a tax cut can stimulate business activity, but not in the environment we are currently in today.
The companies will just hoard the cash and not reinvest it back into the general economy because demand remains weak.
What did US corporations do with the super low interest rates the past 8 years? Borrow money to buy back shares, not to grow the company.
Fal thinks super interest rates are great, yeah for the boys on Wall Street.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: qman] 1
#23717975 - 10/07/16 10:14 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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qman said: Fal thinks super interest rates are great, yeah for the boys on Wall Street.
How are low interest rates not good for everyone? I recently bought a house at a 30 year 3.0% fixed rate. 3.0% is pretty good imho. Why would you argue that's not good?
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Because it makes people who save their money worthless. If a cd pays out have a percent for five years whats the point in saving anything with cost of everything going up. Plan and simple. And yes company's are evil but how's it fair for the people who pay taxes to be burden more so the 50+% who don't pay taxes benefit. If you took all the money form everyone living in the united stated including past wealth it wouldnt equal this years usa budget. We are screwed either way. But any idiot who can't see what with high taxes that does nothing for us. Its the same arguement about increase wages if you increase wages then the people get let hours. There is a budget set out for workers the company can't increase that amount without raising prices. The can't eat the cost because there isnt a bug magical pile of money to do so. But they can't function with less work getting done nor can they increase prices because no one would buy a more costly product. So after a year or two that company with other fail and give up.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: tump]
#23718550 - 10/08/16 06:59 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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That is precisely the intent of the low interest rate: to (EDIT: de)incentivize saving and reward spending/investing/borrowing.
Edit above thanks to qman
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qman said: Fal thinks super interest rates are great, yeah for the boys on Wall Street.
How are low interest rates not good for everyone? I recently bought a house at a 30 year 3.0% fixed rate. 3.0% is pretty good imho. Why would you argue that's not good?
"How are low interest rates not good for everyone?"
Come on Fal, how are low rates good for savers? Also, it's killing banks and pension funds.
Low rates are also distorting the stock, bond and real estate markets. When markets readjust there will be major payback.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Crumist]
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Crumist said: That is precisely the intent of the low interest rate: to incentivize saving and reward spending/investing/borrowing.
No, low rates were meant to discourage saving and spur spending, but the opposite has occurred.
It also has unrewarded lending by the banks because of the low spread, therefore less borrowing.
The wealthy have decided to horde their money because low rates point to a weak economy.
All of the "intentions" never materialized.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: qman]
#23718652 - 10/08/16 08:00 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I promise you that the (vast majority of the) wealthy aren't hording their money in savings accounts, in gold, or under their mattresses. Their money is placed wherever their broker determines reward/risk is greatest
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: qman]
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You got me,I should have known better than pick a fight with the guy with coins as his avatar
That 22% of the wealth of billionaires is estimated to be in cash blows my mind
On the corporate tax rate: I've seen some convincing arguments for lowering or eliminating it. Not because it will cause voodoo growth, but because large corporations will never pay it and it falls unfairly on the smaller businesses. We need creative ways to shift the burden on the walmarts and monsantos
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Crumist]
#23718724 - 10/08/16 08:44 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Crumist said: You got me,I should have known better than pick a fight with the guy with coins as his avatar
That 22% of the wealth of billionaires is estimated to be in cash blows my mind
On the corporate tax rate: I've seen some convincing arguments for lowering or eliminating it. Not because it will cause voodoo growth, but because large corporations will never pay it and it falls unfairly on the smaller businesses. We need creative ways to shift the burden on the walmarts and monsantos
My solution, if corporations want the luxury of shipping operations out of the US and using loopholes to avoid paying taxes- then every US citizen receives a certain amount of dividend payments from the profits.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Crumist]
#23718768 - 10/08/16 09:09 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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Crumist said: You got me,I should have known better than pick a fight with the guy with coins as his avatar
That 22% of the wealth of billionaires is estimated to be in cash blows my mind
On the corporate tax rate: I've seen some convincing arguments for lowering or eliminating it. Not because it will cause voodoo growth, but because large corporations will never pay it and it falls unfairly on the smaller businesses. We need creative ways to shift the burden on the walmarts and monsantos
Exactly, there is simply no reason to keep these high tax rates, even as some are pushing to increase them
All taxes are passed on to the consumer, and to their employees through lower wages, as well, corporations never really pay them essentially
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: qman]
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Crumist said: You got me,I should have known better than pick a fight with the guy with coins as his avatar
That 22% of the wealth of billionaires is estimated to be in cash blows my mind
On the corporate tax rate: I've seen some convincing arguments for lowering or eliminating it. Not because it will cause voodoo growth, but because large corporations will never pay it and it falls unfairly on the smaller businesses. We need creative ways to shift the burden on the walmarts and monsantos
My solution, if corporations want the luxury of shipping operations out of the US and using loopholes to avoid paying taxes- then every US citizen receives a certain amount of dividend payments from the profits.
How about, if corporations want the luxury of selling products in our consumer market at all, they can pay 50% of their non-executive payroll in the U.S. or fuck right off and sell their garbage in China and India.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa]
#23719113 - 10/08/16 11:13 AM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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ballsalsa said:How about, if corporations want the luxury of selling products in our consumer market at all, they can pay 50% of their non-executive payroll in the U.S.
Oooooh, I got a devilish idea. What if we instituted a tax that works out to be a % of the compensation given to executives
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Crumist]
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The top 50 companies in the US are holding 1.4 TRILLION offshore because they don't want to lose half of it as soon as it's brought into the US, lowering the corporate tax rate would give them a reason to move that money back here.
As long as it is offshore, the government gets nothing, 39% of nothing is still nothing
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: hostileuniverse]
#23720202 - 10/08/16 05:56 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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As long as it is offshore, the government gets nothing, 39% of nothing is still nothing
The Fed has been creating 80 some-odd billion a month for years and years now. What do you think would happen(inflation-wise)if 1.4 trillion poured back into the U.S. overnight?
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa]
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It wouldnt be seen in the goods and service's. You see no different in the economy
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa]
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As long as it is offshore, the government gets nothing, 39% of nothing is still nothing
The Fed has been creating 80 some-odd billion a month for years and years now. What do you think would happen(inflation-wise)if 1.4 trillion poured back into the U.S. overnight?
Not all of it would pour back in overnight, plus we are 20 TRILLION in debt, please explain to me how the added revenue would be a bad thing
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: hostileuniverse] 1
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i just did. repatriating all that dough would expose the American public to the full brunt of the inflation caused by massive, years long, quantitative easing. inflation would even devalue the additional tax revenue.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa] 1
#23720764 - 10/08/16 09:39 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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qman said: Fal thinks super interest rates are great, yeah for the boys on Wall Street.
How are low interest rates not good for everyone? I recently bought a house at a 30 year 3.0% fixed rate. 3.0% is pretty good imho. Why would you argue that's not good?
Because it makes people who save their money worthless. If a cd pays out have a percent for five years whats the point in saving anything with cost of everything going up.
Did you know you can put your savings and stocks and mutual funds, which have been doing extremely well? That's what I do with my retirement savings. It's not like people don't know what the current interest rates are.
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how's it fair for the people who earn huge profits for their companies not to get a share of those profits that company executives give to themselves?
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tump said: If you took all the money form everyone living in the united stated including past wealth it wouldnt equal this years usa budget. We are screwed either way. But any idiot who can't see what with high taxes that does nothing for us.
I assume you get your statistics from conservative sources? That's not even close to being true. The annual US budget is around $4 trillion, while current US wealth is way over $50 trillion. And that's not counting "past wealth".
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You probably don't work in corporate accounting. Corporations today pay employees FAR less than they're worth to the company. That's why raising minimum wage doesn't increase unemployment. And for the handful of companies that need to raise prices, the increase would be FAR less than the increase in the minimum wage. It's been proven many times here with empirical evidence that a 10% US minimum wage increase raises overall prices by no more than 0.4%.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: qman] 1
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qman said: Fal thinks super interest rates are great, yeah for the boys on Wall Street.
How are low interest rates not good for everyone? I recently bought a house at a 30 year 3.0% fixed rate. 3.0% is pretty good imho. Why would you argue that's not good?
Come on Fal, how are low rates good for savers? Also, it's killing banks and pension funds.
Low rates are also distorting the stock, bond and real estate markets.
Savers can put their money into stocks and real estate if they want.
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qman said: When markets readjust there will be major payback.
"Readjust"??? What does that mean? I've already shown you that corporate profits are at an all time high.
You continuously refuse to accept the facts because you won't allow yourself to credit a black president for improving the economy.
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Investing=saving what??
Lel at king liberal not even knowing there is a level of systemic risk that can't be hedged away.
Lrn2 finance bro.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: elax420] 1
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elax420 said: Investing=saving what??
Yes. If you don't understand basic business concepts, I suggest looking them up before asking.
Savings - The portion of disposable income not spent on consumption of consumer goods but accumulated or invested directly in capital equipment or in paying off a home mortgage, or indirectly through purchase of securities.
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elax420 said: Lel at king liberal not even knowing there is a level of systemic risk that can't be hedged away.
What makes you believe I don't know about systemic risk? I have an MBA and am fairly confident I understand it a lot better than you do.
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I learned. You should too.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa]
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ballsalsa said: i just did. repatriating all that dough would expose the American public to the full brunt of the inflation caused by massive, years long, quantitative easing. inflation would even devalue the additional tax revenue.
so once again, a problem caused by govt, but yeah, keep electing the same assholes,
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qman said: Fal thinks super interest rates are great, yeah for the boys on Wall Street.
How are low interest rates not good for everyone? I recently bought a house at a 30 year 3.0% fixed rate. 3.0% is pretty good imho. Why would you argue that's not good?
Come on Fal, how are low rates good for savers? Also, it's killing banks and pension funds.
Low rates are also distorting the stock, bond and real estate markets.
Savers can put their money into stocks and real estate if they want.
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qman said: When markets readjust there will be major payback.
"Readjust"??? What does that mean? I've already shown you that corporate profits are at an all time high.
You continuously refuse to accept the facts because you won't allow yourself to credit a black president for improving the economy.
Stocks and real estate are speculative investments with considerable risks, they could lose -50% or more in a few years, why would someone in retirement want to take that risk?
"credit a black president for improving the economy"
The President of the US has no correlation with the strength or weakness of the global economy.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/corporate-profits-set-to-shrink-for-fourth-consecutive-quarter-1468799278
Borrowing money to buy back shares while revenue and profits decline does NOT make stocks more valuable, there will be payback for such behavior.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: hostileuniverse]
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Crumist said: You got me,I should have known better than pick a fight with the guy with coins as his avatar
That 22% of the wealth of billionaires is estimated to be in cash blows my mind
On the corporate tax rate: I've seen some convincing arguments for lowering or eliminating it. Not because it will cause voodoo growth, but because large corporations will never pay it and it falls unfairly on the smaller businesses. We need creative ways to shift the burden on the walmarts and monsantos
Exactly, there is simply no reason to keep these high tax rates, even as some are pushing to increase them
All taxes are passed on to the consumer, and to their employees through lower wages, as well, corporations never really pay them essentially
"All taxes are passed on to the consumer"
That's not true, in a competitive market place, higher taxes result in smaller profit margins, not higher prices.
"employees through lower wages"
That's not true either, if there's a tight labor market you can NOT lower wages, in fact during the 70's companies had to hike wages while profits were declining, boy have times changed.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: qman]
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We no longer have a "competitive market" or a "tight labor pool"
If we did, you're logic would stand, as things are now, it does not
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: hostileuniverse]
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so once again, a problem caused by govt, but yeah, keep electing the same assholes, 
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Come on Fal, how are low rates good for savers? Also, it's killing banks and pension funds.
Low rates are also distorting the stock, bond and real estate markets.
Savers can put their money into stocks and real estate if they want.
Stocks and real estate are speculative investments with considerable risks, they could lose -50% or more in a few years, why would someone in retirement want to take that risk?
There are a whole range of investment options between savings and options trading. Investors can decided how much risk they are willing to take.
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Borrowing money to buy back shares while revenue and profits decline does NOT make stocks more valuable
Do you think higher interest rates would make stocks more valuable?
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elax420 said: Investing=saving what??
Yes. If you don't understand basic business concepts, I suggest looking them up before asking.
Savings - The portion of disposable income not spent on consumption of consumer goods but accumulated or invested directly in capital equipment or in paying off a home mortgage, or indirectly through purchase of securities.
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elax420 said: Lel at king liberal not even knowing there is a level of systemic risk that can't be hedged away.
What makes you believe I don't know about systemic risk? I have an MBA and am fairly confident I understand it a lot better than you do.
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elax420 said: Lrn2 finance bro.
I learned. You should too.
Finance degree compared to what exactly?
Saving isn't the same thing as investing, stop lying.
Tell me Mr. "MBA" *cough* bullshit *cough* do you pay capital gains on the .05% interest you get from the bank? Can you withdraw your money at any time, or do you have sell your "security"? Is capital held in stocks backed by the government, or can you can you lose your entire keyword "investment" at any time.
Liar liar pants on fire!

The easiest way to tell when you catch someone's bullshit or you've won an argument, is the reverting to an elementary school kid "no you" flip of an insult. Like shit you so embarrassed you can't even come up with your own insult.
The other sign that someone is a master purveyor of bullshit is they do the split quote tried and true "Zappa method" and hides behind obscure links. I'm on to you bro. 
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa]
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The Federal Reserve is not the government, and bankers are not elected
The Federal Reserve is the government as much as the EPA, IRS, FBI, or any other government agency is.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Enlil]
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ballsalsa said: i just did. repatriating all that dough would expose the American public to the full brunt of the inflation caused by massive, years long, quantitative easing. inflation would even devalue the additional tax revenue.
so once again, a problem caused by govt, but yeah, keep electing the same assholes, 
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The Federal Reserve is not the government, and bankers are not elected
The Federal Reserve is the government as much as the EPA, IRS, FBI, or any other government agency is.
Hard to believe that he doesn't understand the connection between the two
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: hostileuniverse]
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I understand about none of this talk. I still keep money in a jar.
Someday they are going to want to have all financial transactions be digital. They talk sometimes about no longer printing bills above a $20. Remember Gold used to be illegal to possess other than jewelry.
Your entire life easily indexed and researched to be against you.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Morel Guy]
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Morel Guy said: I understand about none of this talk. I still keep money in a jar.
Someday they are going to want to have all financial transactions be digital. They talk sometimes about no longer printing bills above a $20. Remember Gold used to be illegal to possess other than jewelry.
Your entire life easily indexed and researched to be against you.
There are two sides to every coin though.
Analytics can be used to provide overwhelming net positives in health and finance imo
It's gonna be pretty fucking cool when they can treat kids for heart diesese that will kill them in their 40s way before it's even an issue
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: elax420]
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They can already do that. I know a guy in my family that has had a heart issue since he was born. He has had heart surgery and has a pace maker. He's getting closer to 70 if not already there.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Morel Guy]
#23722439 - 10/09/16 02:25 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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I'm not a doctor. Unlike falcon I'm not comfortable with lying about shit I know nothing about.
Point is technology is gonna lead to some awesome things that are incredibly beneficial to society. Some shitty things too but I think it will be a net gain
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Falcon91Wolvrn03 said: How are low interest rates not good for everyone? I recently bought a house at a 30 year 3.0% fixed rate. 3.0% is pretty good imho. Why would you argue that's not good?
Come on Fal, how are low rates good for savers? Also, it's killing banks and pension funds.
Low rates are also distorting the stock, bond and real estate markets.
Savers can put their money into stocks and real estate if they want.
Stocks and real estate are speculative investments with considerable risks, they could lose -50% or more in a few years, why would someone in retirement want to take that risk?
There are a whole range of investment options between savings and options trading. Investors can decided how much risk they are willing to take.
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Borrowing money to buy back shares while revenue and profits decline does NOT make stocks more valuable
Do you think higher interest rates would make stocks more valuable? 
Obviously stock investors wouldn't want to see higher interest rates, the mere thought of just a 1/4 point hike sends them into a selling frenzy.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Enlil]
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The Federal Reserve is not the government, and bankers are not elected
The Federal Reserve is the government as much as the EPA, IRS, FBI, or any other government agency is.
Maybe so, but it is quite different from all of those agencies in that it is partially controlled by private business interests(openly).
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa]
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The other way around, actually.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Enlil]
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa]
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So, you agree that it's exactly the same? The EPA regulates private business just like the Fed regulates private business.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Enlil]
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The EPA doesn't consist of private businesses though. the Federal Reserve does.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: elax420] 2
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elax420 said: Investing=saving what??
Yes. If you don't understand basic business concepts, I suggest looking them up before asking.
Savings - The portion of disposable income not spent on consumption of consumer goods but accumulated or invested directly in capital equipment or in paying off a home mortgage, or indirectly through purchase of securities.
Saving isn't the same thing as investing, stop lying.
Do you mean stop proving you wrong with evidence, such as a link to the Business Dictionary definition of savings?
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I currently get 0.25% interest, and it is taxed as ordinary income. You should do something about that cold.
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I can withdraw my cash savings at any time, and I can withdraw my stocks/mutual funds savings at any time by selling it for cash.
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No, it is not backed by the Government. I invest in mutual funds, and while it's hypothetically possible to lose a lot, it is also hypothetically possible to lose a lot of cash (if the dollar devalues due to hyperinflation, for example).
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The easiest way to tell when you catch someone's bullshit or you've won an argument, is the reverting to an elementary school kid "no you" flip of an insult. Like shit you so embarrassed you can't even come up with your own insult.
Do you mean like calling me a liar without backing yourself up???
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Yes, I see you get upset when people back their claims with evidence. I never realized that was a sign of bullshit. I guess I learned logic from a different school.
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I'll give you five shrooms for you if you can show us what I lied about.     I might be biased as a judge, so I'll let Enlil decide if you caught me in a lie (if he cares to weigh in on your reply to this).
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa]
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Ownership of the Fed is always a semantics argument, but I believe Congress has more control of the Fed than the bankers, even if the bankers run the day to day operations.
The original debate was who is responsible for quantitative easing - the Government or Private Industry? I would say the Government has more responsibility, as the Fed doesn't operate in a vacuum. I disagree that QE was a bad thing given the Great Recession of 2008, but that's for another thread.
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Ownership of the Fed is always a semantics argument, but I believe Congress has more control of the Fed than the bankers, even if the bankers run the day to day operations.
The original debate was who is responsible for quantitative easing - the Government or Private Industry? I would say the Government has more responsibility, as the Fed doesn't operate in a vacuum. I disagree that QE was a bad thing given the Great Recession of 2008, but that's for another thread.
I didn't say that QE was bad, my point was that repatriating large amounts of dollars at a tax discount is a bad idea, partially because it would exacerbate inflation caused by to QE, which would devalue the revenues gained in this way
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: ballsalsa]
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You may be right. 
I think the discussion went a little off topic regarding who was responsible for QE.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Crumist]
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Panama. Yes, Panama. Well, not so much anymore.
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I'll give you five shrooms for you if you can show us what I lied about.     I might be biased as a judge, so I'll let Enlil decide if you caught me in a lie (if he cares to weigh in on your reply to this).
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I like where this is going.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: qman]
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Bigbadwooof said: Donald Trump has a novel idea - We should lower corporate tax rates to 15%. That way more businesses will want to set up shop in America, or stay here.
This is called Trickle Down Economics, or 'Reaganomics'. He's a real thinker, people. Innovator. He wants to give America a golden shower, moreso than any of his predecessors!
Trickle Down Reaganomics doesn't fucking work. It never has.
Can someone please explain to me what I don't understand about this?
Trump apologists unite!
Sometimes a tax cut can stimulate business activity, but not in the environment we are currently in today.
The companies will just hoard the cash and not reinvest it back into the general economy because demand remains weak.
What did US corporations do with the super low interest rates the past 8 years? Borrow money to buy back shares, not to grow the company.
Back to the first (and last) post that pertained to the OP.
I agree with this post. Trump does not.
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Trumped up trickled down economics! Yeah he wants to golden shower America; he would piss on each and everyone of our faces if giventhe chance! He is only making the rich richer and the poor even more poor! Vote for me and i'll tax the rich ($250,000 a year +) 35% more so that anyone making less then that can go to community colleges for free.
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Re: Donald Trump to lower corporate tax to 15% [Re: Rick Grimsy]
#23764949 - 10/23/16 06:18 PM (7 years, 3 months ago) |
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