I'd add that in many ways the lower cost of items is good for America. After all what's the point of being a wealthy nation if all that wealth is going to pay for very expensive products? We simply need to replace the manufacturing jobs that have been outsourced with jobs that can't be outsourced like retail and service jobs.
Then again my knowledge of economics is pretty limited so I may be way off base. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:15 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: The real reason for unemployment Who are you kidding? No company will move their plants off shore _solely_ so they can do business with Wal-Mart. Besides, why is it Wal-Mart's fault? No company is forced to business with Wal-Mart. Not sure how I feel about your idea about the surtax or eliminating a tax credit for companies that move plants off shore. My initial reaction was to agree, but after thinking about it for a while it seems more like a punishment for trying to do what is best for your company. To me, that would be like taxing UPS for choosing to use cheaper fuel to keep their expenses down. On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]> wrote: > > To add on to your comment, those other companies do not have the same > buying policies that Walmart uses with its suppliers. That really > creates an incentive for those corporations to move production off > shore. Moreover with current tax structures for corporations they > still get corporate tax breaks even though most of their production is > offshore. > > Perhaps one way of countering the trend is to make it far more > expensive for the companies to offshore - elmination of any tax > credits etc or a surtax on offshoring. > > On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Casey Dougall > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Wy single out Wal-Mart? >>> >>> Target, K-Mart and the like sell pretty much the same products. Does >>> only Wal-Mart buy them from the Chinese? >>> >> >> >> While they may purchase goods from China, Asia etc... They still create >> thousands of fairly decent paying jobs in their distribution centers, not to >> mention the management positions at each store. >> >> Just saying... >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328709 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
