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Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)

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From: jmfbahciv
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:06
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Scott Lurndal wrote:
> jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes:
>>Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>> J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:37:35 -0800 (PST), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 9:31:46 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> >"Reverse inversion".  What's "spurious" about it?  US corporate taxes
>>>>>> >were ludicrously high
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nonsense.   US Companies were rolling in dough before the
>>>>>> manifestly foolish tax plan was passed, which will never
>>>>>> be paid for in our children's lifetime.
>>>>>
>>>>>+1
>>>>
>>>>Spoken like true knee-jerk liberals.
>>>
>>> Wow, you can't support your statement so you devolve to namecalling.
>>
>>A lot of that money was just sitting overseas collecting dust and interest.
>>Now some companies are moving it back to the States using it for
>>infrastructure and distributions to employees (which is taxed as income--
>>so part of it is ending up in the Federal coffers).
>
> Cite?
>
> Many (Most?) CEO's have indicated they'll return the cash to shareholders
rather
> than invest in plant or people.   There obviously will be exceptions by
> either altrusistic CEOS (one in 10000) or those currying favor from the
> idiot-in-chief.

Apple.

/BAH
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Subject: Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)
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