bdh3
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Some thoughts on 'fairness' (another Tax item).
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May 3 05:18 UTC 2002 |
Recently there have been some media mutterings about the amount
of money that some corporations receive from various government
agencies and government funded NGOs. Some mention of situations
where corporation person is on board of NGO who then grants
corporation loan to buy oil from itself or things like that.
Other case where corporation E obtains 'development' loan to
set up factory in 'developing' nation to buy product from corporations
B and S to then sell output back to B and S transported by E -
not to mention any specifics... In theory a pretty fair dinkum
deal, benefits the shareholders of B, E, and S and in theory
profit from such a venture flows back into the corporations which
distribute those profits, which are taxed by the government. back
to the shareholders in the form of dividends which are then taxed
again by the government, who is supposed to oversee such dealings
and operations, and everybody is happy, right? Oh, and B,E,&S
all contribute huge amounts of money to political campaigns of
politicians they like - but thats not a problem because those
donations are 'tax deductible'. And those politicians wouldn't
think of doing anything so crass as to vote on tax and other
laws in such a way that benefits those corporations who like
them and give them money, right? Those corporations wouldn't also
have 'lobbyists' who they pay (its ok, its 'tax deductible')
to help the 'governors' govern would they?
And then when the whole house of cards comes tumbling down from
time to time as it inevitably must, its the 'evil corporations'
who are at fault- not playing 'fair'. (Perhaps along with 'those'
politicians, you know, the one's who aren't in the party who you
like.) 'We need more laws' becomes the 'sanctimonetious' cry of
the politicians (who have been passing laws right and left all
along and who have been receiving money from those corporations
regardless of party - yes it is the rare corporation that doesn't
contribute generally the same to both parties).
But your elected officials can't complain too hard and too long
because there is also 'B,E,&S's whose product is tax payer money
'output' back into those 'developing nations' called 'districts'
who's 'profit' is to the official who buys the votes of citizens
with their own money.
Its a giant Ponzi scheme paid for by you. Its your fault.
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md
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response 1 of 5:
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May 3 11:20 UTC 2002 |
That was quite an *orgy* of unnecessary quotation marks at the end
there.
Anyway, you need to accept that fact that when people don't understand
you it isn't because they're stupid or undereducated, it's because you
don't write well. That is, unless you're doing it on purpose -- i.e.,
deliberately stretching a one-paragraph idea into a long rambling
discursive jumble, for what reason you know best.
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