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Originally Posted by Robbie
Richard...why should any of us be "curious" about what GE pays in taxes?
It's not our business or Minte's or yours. Hell, I applaud them for figuring out ways to keep more of THEIR money that THEY earned and not hand it over to the greedy U.S. govt.
I want everybody to be able to keep their own money without lifetime career bureaucrats in Washington D.C. getting their grubby hands on it.
Not saying the Feds don't need revenue, but they are already bringing in more revenue than at any time in history...and yet they still manage to spend almost double what they bring in.
Raising taxes a few percentage points isn't going to help anything.
The Federal govt. needs to stop the excessive spending.
10 billion dollars A DAY.
GE made a net profit of 14.07 billion dollars in 2011.
That means the U.S. govt. spends more in 1 1/2 days than GE profits all YEAR.
Think about that for a minute.
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We should be curious because that sort of behaviour obviously doesn't stop there.
I never said anything about raising taxes, and i certainly agree with excess federal spending done by both our governments, but that is mostly centred on military spending. We can do a lot more with a lot less money and that has been proven in the last few, ah, conflicts. Sailing around billion dollar targets strikes me as a very bad idea