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In reply to the discussion: Apple CEO Tim Cook Visits Foxconn's iPhone Plant In China [View all]gateley
(62,683 posts)23. I don't understand all the tax stuff, but I've heard that Apple won't be bringing back those
billions of dollars that are overseas (something else I don't understand) because of the tax penalties they'd pay here. Maybe 'penalties' is the wrong word.
If Apple could build factories here and bring some of that cash back to give Americans jobs (and give us the pride of Made In America) I'd be more than willing for them -- and others like them -- to receive tax breaks. They would be providing something in return, as opposed (as far as I can tell) to Big Oil.
You can't fault any publicly traded company, who is mandated by law to make a profit, to take steps and moves that would impact them in a financially negative way. So until we make it WORTH their while, I don't see any of them coming back to the shores of U.S.A.
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he's going there to twist arms in an attempt to pressure mangement into keep the
leftyohiolib
Mar 2012
#1
I imagine that your mind-reading skills could be put to better use than this. nt.
harmonicon
Mar 2012
#18
Even though Daisey's "report" was less than factual, the number of suicides does indicate oppressive
gateley
Mar 2012
#2
Conditions there are oppressive, however the suicide rate is lower than the average Chinese factory.
onehandle
Mar 2012
#3
I inhabit several Apple forums and call for Apple to buy inert American factories...
onehandle
Mar 2012
#10
I don't understand all the tax stuff, but I've heard that Apple won't be bringing back those
gateley
Mar 2012
#23
What's your phone? What's your computer? Are you going to boycott those companies as
gateley
Mar 2012
#9
I am not going to buy anything Apple because I don't need any of their products
Kolesar
Mar 2012
#16
how about keep the computer and quit buying the icrap garbage they keep pumping out
leftyohiolib
Mar 2012
#28
Surprisingly, POW barracks in Germany always seemed so nice ... when the Red Cross visited.
PSPS
Mar 2012
#8
The part I find hard to swallow is that Mike Daisey has an 'upscale' NY City Apartment.
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2012
#29