Just curious. You do so love these Brussels based bureaucrats and hate the Poms. If they can’t even manage a vaccine roll out, how can they conduct international affairs?Has the penny dropped?
"@Stav, what is your take on Biden's new proposed minimum international corporate tax thresholds of around 20%?"
Commies are gonna do Commie sh!t
@Draad, you are a simpleton.
A government has to collect tax, it has been like that since day one. Someone has to pay tax. It is fine, as long as the tax rate is not too high, and people pay an equal percentage of their earnings.
Bidens is delivering on his promise to make sure that everyone pays a fair amount of tax, even the rich.
The richest people in the US are the ones shafting America with their offshoring of jobs, and tax evasion.
Biden's made in America laws will ensure more jobs are retained in the US.
Biden will probably only increase corporate tax by a few per cent (lower than 28%).
The only good thing Trump did was lower the corporate tax rate.
Your hero the great Trump negotiator just started trade wars around the world, but now with Biden on board (an adult), an agreement looks like it will happen.
The richest countries in the world will be very happy with this tax- including anyone in the US that have any brain.
It will benefit the richest countries greatly, as the tax money will be collected by their governments, not tax-havens.
In June 2019, Biden named Amazon and said no company making billions in profits should pay a lower tax rate than firefighters and teachers.
Biden said last week Amazon was one of 91 Fortune 500 companies that "use various loopholes where they pay not a single solitary penny in federal income tax," in sharp contrast to middle-class families paying over 20% tax rates.
Actually it is a dumb idea which punishes the honest and rewards the Cheats. And it increases complexity. It’s based on the Alternative Minimum Tax concept where every tax payer in the US has to calculate his taxes 2 ways and pay the greater.
It certainly is great revenue for the lawyers but will simply make corporate taxes more complex. Taxes were trending up under Trump because income was going up. Increase the rates and income avoidance will send them back down.
The old Democratic playbook about to be trotted out and disproven yet again. Governments don’t create wealth, businesses do....governments waste what they get.
Close the loopholes and keep tax rates down. And by the way it’s not Biden’s idea. He hasn’t had one in about 10 years.
Tell me again Anger....what was the GNP result in the EU vs the US last year.....and tell me again what % of EU citizens vs US citizens have been vaccinated.
"@Draad, you are a simpleton.
A government has to collect tax, it has been like that since day one"@Mozart, the US has also been lucky as the UK variant is only starting to become the dominant one in the US.
The UK and EU got hammered on the second wave by this variant which is twice as infectious.
So these places had to go through winter with the UK variant as the dominant variant.
But have I misrepresented you Anger....handsome is as handsome does and from what I can gather you always find excuses for Europe and condemn the UK. If I’m wrong and you now think the UK is as viable as the EU, I apologize,
True Shark, but unlucky in having huge cities peopled by a high percentage of obese people. But of course lucky in having Trump without whose contempt for bureaucracy we would never have gotten the vaccines so fast.
What excuses for the EU?
I just said the EU was too slow in investing in R&D and increasing production capacity in regards to the vaccine. Had they done so the EU as a whole would be in a better position regards its vaccine rollout. Its a mistake that has and will cost lives and money.
I've defended the EU in relation to some of the absolute nonsense arguments leveled against it by Brexiteers, drivel like the EU wanting to ban tea or the EU banning bendy banana's but I've never said the EU is without faults. It didn't exactly handle the migrant crisis a few years back particularly well either.
I've also been high critical of the UK government in both its handling of both Brexit and the pandemic as well as the bulk of the UK media who serve as little more than mouth pieces for the government, but I have nothing against the average UK citizen. I actually feel sorry for them, particularity those who wanted to remain in the EU and those who conned into voting for Brexit on the basis of lies some of whom have now realizing that very vote has put their jobs in jeopardy. I also have family and friends there who I don't wish to see being negatively affected.
The UK is a viable country, just outside of the EU its diminished compared to what it was as an EU member.
Stav is a half baked ignoramus that supports the globalist rule and destruction of Europe. I
I have posted numerous articles, clips by top medical people speaking out force fully about the very serious dangers of these so called "Vaccines". One of the top vaccine experts in the world says they are deadly. Fact is they have already killed thousands and made others very sick. I posted stats from the UK.
So the blundering inefficient EU blundering about AstraZeneca vaccine could be a great blessing.
Beeno you really should seek professional help.
Beeno needs to be taken to the vet and put down. There is no other option...
The EU wanted to an tea? Nope the EU wanted to ban tea kettles on another of their loopy Global Warming excursions. See, something that sounds absurd is suddenly completely plausible.
The EU.....life lived by bureaucrats.
Didn't you bring up banning tea or tea breaks in another thread. No the EU does not want to ban tea kettles (also pretty sure there is no such thing as tea kettles there's just kettle), that's a dishonest misrepresentation and you know it.
As for bureaucrats, the UK has had to hire way more because of leaving the EU and have to deal with far more red tape, but anyway, that's like reality not the fantasy land supporters of Brexit occupy.
A ban on super-strength kettles has been put on hold amid fears that it could drive Britain to leave the EU, it has been reported.
The European Commission had been planning a number of measures to ban high energy appliances for environmental reasons. However it has now quietly shelved the ban due to concerns that backlash in Britain could drive the country towards a Brexit, The Financial Times reports.
The ban would have applied to a number of high powered household appliances which are much loved in the UK, including kettles and toasters. A senior EU official has reportedly said that the commission has paused plans to introduce the rules to be “sensitive to the British obsession with water kettles.”
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Think about an apology Anger .
Well there you go....you claim the EU never wanted to ban kettles...I demonstrate they did. And you divert into a discussion of whether it’s kettles or tea kettles and whether it’s all kettles, which I never claimed.
A more honest response would simply have been to say ...’gosh, that news to me.....clearly there was thought given to banning some tea kettles’.
But instead you tried to create your own truth through semantics...standard tactics of the new Left,
Learning to spot it, we are?
Tea Kettle Gate?