Biden: "We Want To Create A Global Minimum Tax"
"For years,
American manufacturers have faced one of the highest tax rates in the world. We
want to reduce that by over 20%. We want to drop the rate, particularly, for
high-tech manufacturers like you, Mr. President, even further than the 20%,"
Vice President Joe Biden said at a manufacturing plant in Davenport, Iowa this
week.
"We want to create (what's called) a global minimum tax, because American
taxpayers shouldn't be providing a larger subsidy for investing abroad than
investing at home," Biden said at a campaign event..."
Biden: "We Want To Create A Global Minimum Tax"
Ge 11:3-4, Re 13:17
See:
One World Government/Religion
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Being that the quote was so obviously clipped out of it's context, it's impossible to know what he was talking about. My guess would be that he used the word "tax" to refer to tariffs being applied to American manufactured goods by other countries, and by a "global tax" he means some sort of universal tariff system. But there's no way to know what he's talking about..."
It wasn't even
a document dump on a Friday.
This one came out of his own mouth.
"You have diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain." ~ Unknown
Eccl 10:2
"Being that it's Joe Biden, it's impossible to know what he was talking about...fixed it for you..."
Being that it's
Joe Biden,
he probably wasn't supposed to reveal this plan (Ge
11:3-4,
Re 13:17).
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Yeah, this sort of "fix" seems to be the standard methodology for the [R]epublican party and it's supporters, these days..."
I do not
support the RePublican party.
Romney, should he get the nomination, will not get my vote.
Response to comment [from other]: "It's about decreasing loopholes for American companies who employ overseas to avoid paying taxes, holding them accountable. It's not some sort of "New World Order" international global tax. It's an unfortunate description. It's domestic, not international..."
Maybe.
Either way it's disgraceful. America is no longer business friendly.
U.S. corporate tax rate poised to become highest
Response to comment [from a Christian]: "Perhaps that's because so many businesses in America don't give a crap about their own American workers."
Businesses
exist to make a profit not coddle you.
"Nor do they care about the effect they have on the communities they inhabit, or on the environment we all live in, or on the governments that they pervert with their bribery. All they care about is profits, and everything and everyone else is just there to be exploited."
If you want
someone to care for you, buy a puppy.
Leftists (Eccl
10:2)
don't have a corner on the market on good stewardship of the plant (Jn
10:10,
Ge 1:28,
Pr 16:8,
22:7,
24:30,Am 8:5).
"Then why shouldn't we exploit businesses, in return, and tax them as we please? After all, if the relationship is going to be antagonistic, it should go both ways."
That's what
we're doing
--which
is why we are loosing jobs.
"We are losing jobs because
businesses found cheaper ways of making money, and because making money is the
only thing they care about..."
Businesses exist to make a profit. If you ran a business, you would also find ways to cut costs.
"We would have lost the jobs regardless of taxation..."
Not true.
Jobs are going overseas because of high corporate taxes.
"The problem is that you think business is your daddy, and that you have to keep
daddy happy or he will punish you by not giving you your allowance for taking
out the garbage every day. Like a frightened child, you presume we must all do
what daddy says, or else!
But your daddy is really just a bunch of greedy school boy turds hiding in a
boardroom and laughing at you because they know they have you cowed like a
little girl. And they can keep you wallowing in their garbage indefinitely
because you're too scared to stand up to them."
Would you talk
like this in an interview?
[Businesses exist to make a profit. If you ran a business, you would also find ways to cut costs.] "Not at the expense of the well-being of the other people involved in the business, or the community that my business is supposed to serve."
Does business serve you? What computer are you using right now? Why should a
company make the computer for you? Any drinks nearby? Ice cubes from your
refrigerator? Who made your soda, coffee, etc.? Refrigerator? Are you sitting on
a chair? Who made the chair for you? Did they do it out of the goodness of their
heart?
You use products made by people who are interested in making a profit.
"Business" is not a divine entity. It's just a
behavior that we humans engage in, collectively. If the behavior does not serve
our collective well-being, then there's no point in our engaging in it."
Send us smoke signals in the future.
We'll get back to you.
"You seem to be jumping to an irrational extreme, here..."
You're projecting
again.
"We engage in commerce for profit...."
Now it's "we".
"...And that's good."
Now that's "good".
"...But it's only good if everyone is profiting from the activity..."
You value equality.
I value liberty.
"What you're calling liberty is just economic Darwinism..."
Now you're opposed
to Darwinism.
"True liberty comes with being free from this kind of Dawrinist exploitation, and from the suffering and social destruction that this 'winner-take-all' kind of economic system causes. Claiming that because people are "free" to suffer and die so that a few can live in boundless security and luxury would be to misrepresent what freedom is. In fact, it's calling tyranny, "freedom". Which of course it is not."
God is pro-labor (Gen.
3:17–19). Others here have asked you if you are
interested in opening your own business.
What have you done? What have you created or provided for others?
Ps. 104:23,
Acts 20:35;
Eph. 4:28. Do you feel
incompetent to contribute?
2 Thess. 3:10. Do you
want others to pay your way?
Ex 20:15,
20:17.
"Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it" ~ Soth Aron
"To be a human being is to oppose Darwinism, to some degree...."
As long as it makes sense to you.
"We may be animals, but we are animals with imagination."
Jer. 18:12
"We can imagine that we are men..."
Ge 1:27; Isa 45:12
"We can imagine that we are something more than just dumb animals scratching and clawing at each other to become the pack's alpha, and to get the biggest portion of the kill, and to impregnate all the females...."
And some other third thing.
"...Perhaps it's time for us to imagine that we don't have to behave like dumb animals on Wall Street, or at the Walmart..."
Or at the
AFL–CIO.
"Or wherever else we engage in commerce. Perhaps we could do business like men, each getting a share of the profits..."
You value equality.
I value liberty.
"...[A]nd each looking out for the welfare of the others. Imagine that!"
Viva la France!
"Equality, which is the primary value of the left, is a European value, not an
American value. Let me tell you that right now. I know this sounds offensive to
half of my fellow Americans, because they have been Europeanized in their
values. The French Revolution is not the American Revolution. The French
Revolution said Liberty, Fraternity, Equality. The American Revolution said
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Prager)..." Full text:
Liberty vs. Tyranny
You seem to have deliberately left out the first part of that sentence..."We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
You are created equal (Ac 17:26) to pursue your own happiness (2 Thess. 3:7–14) not steal from another (Ex 20:15, 17) to gain happiness. You are not entitled to the fruits of another man's labor. If you won't work, you should starve (2 Thess 3:10).
"Shouldn't you be telling this to some Wall Street banker?"
I'm telling you. You have class envy (Ro 1:29).
"I haven't bribed the government to let me lie, cheat, and steal from millions of my fellow citizens..."
You'd like to with the power of government (Ex 20:15, Job
5:2; Pr 14:30, Jn 10:10, Jas 3:16).
Be content with what you have (Lk 3:14).
