Small Business? Obama has a plan for you,... Drop Dead. Not Kidding...

[twyacht]

No words for the march to socialism. Just like Maryland's millionaire's tax expected to generate "lots" of tax revenue,...

Uh,... they left the state,....How's that revenue now?

More at the link...

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=aaaBdVMkjPnU


Obama Tells American Businesses to Drop Dead: Kevin Hassett

Commentary by Kevin Hassett
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June 8 (Bloomberg) -- I’ve finally figured out the Obama economic strategy. President Barack Obama and his team have been having so much fun wielding dictatorial power while rescuing “failed” firms, that they have developed a scheme to gain the same power over every business. The plan is to enact policies that are so anticompetitive that every firm needs a bailout.

Once that happens, their new pay czar Kenneth Feinberg can set the wage for everybody and Rahm Emanuel can stack the boards of all of our companies with his political cronies.

I know, it sounds like an exaggeration. But look at it this way. If there were a power ranking of U.S. companies, like the ones compiled by football writers for National Football League teams, Microsoft would surely be first or second to Google. But last week, Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer came to Washington to announce what Microsoft would do if Obama’s multinational tax policy is enacted.

“It makes U.S. jobs more expensive,” Ballmer said, “We’re better off taking lots of people and moving them out of the U.S.” If Microsoft, perhaps our most competitive company, has to abandon the U.S. in order to continue to thrive, who exactly is going to stay?

At issue is Obama’s policy to end the deferral of multinational taxation.

The U.S. now has about the highest combined corporate tax rate, second only to Japan among industrialized countries. That rate is so high that U.S. firms have an enormous disadvantage versus competitors. The average corporate tax rate for the major developed countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in 2008 was about 27 percent, more than 10 percentage points lower than the U.S. rate.

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Sound economic policy, those Democrats. Right in the middle of a recession, tell the foundation of American economy you need to pay more.

Oh, and we're going to tax you employer based healthcare costs....

Only 3 1/2 years to go!!!!!

[Fatman]

Hmm. Not for nothing, but I recently went to the web store for a computer game company based in Europe and got this charming little message:

"VAT tax will be collected for EU countries and the US"


Since when??