You mean we all ought to be flipping burgers or selling each other insurance?
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Sisk, Kris <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:328710 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
