if the country were smart there'd be a VAT on imported goods that compete with locally made goods but good luck getting anything that increases prices through congress

Trump should employ illegals to build the wall with the promise of citizenship upon it's completion.

service = citizenship

:)

lol so I looked up what you were talking about:

"There also would be a 10% pretax profit margin for the contractor. Taxing that at the 15%
business rate yields 1.5% of project cost. Adding that to the taxes on wages yields 13.82%,
slightly above the 13.69% tax credit. "

It is using the expected profit margin on the job to help explain how the tax revenue will recoup the costs. Your understanding is wayyy off base

:nuts:

Without that profit margin the plan doesn't pay for itself. So it wouldn't be revenue neutral. The expected profit margin also seems overly ambitious.

I think 10% profit margin is way off base, but if it's 2-3% it doesn't make a whole lot of difference in the tax revenue. Instead of corporate profit it is salaries or material purchases from other companies that are increasing their revenue instead.

I didn't read the whole thing though so I'm not judging whether or not it makes sense, just that it most definitely is not some guaranteed 10% pretax profit to contractors.

it's govt work so u just use subcontractors to obscure costs and hide the profit

they be making more than 10% garrenz

CNN on Twitter:

:lol:

Wait, Trump picked an asian woman to be transportation secretary?

Shouldn't asian women learn to drive first?

He is going to troll 350 million people for at least 4 years ***55357;***56834;

he gonna get impeached and go to jail for tax evasion and fraud and amerikkka is gonna eat it's shorts or something idk

Not if he audits the fed first.

they produce toyotas and hondas n **** in the US cheaper than overseas so its not too crazy of an idea. not sure how diff thatd be for iphones but i doubt itd be 2k each

its too late now anyway, the actual recount would take far longer than the deadline. unless they really want that pointless congress vote.

it would not b 2k for an iPhone ever phaytal just attempting more rationalizing his own intellectual inferiority
plight of worthless trash smdh lol :jester:

By building their cars in non-union states, they save on average about $1800.00/car. This not only translates to lower prices and higher profits, but also allows the company to invest in higher quality materials and trim. That's why American made foreign cars are still better than domestic union state cars.

If you're able to keep the unions out of the process, the phones will be comparable price wise.

didnt know unions were a per state thing. if trump can get rid of unions ... AND lawyer interference in other states theres hope

Big gvt statist scum outraged over cost of gvt.

:lol:

lol

o yeah, lefties hate 'Right to work' states

Right to Work Laws - Workplace Fairness

The comments are the best

we've changed out mind about right to work and we want manufacturing wages to be as low as possible

And so begins the argument over protectionism

Koreans make some damn cheap vehicles.......some so cheap they don't pass our transportation safety guidelines and can't be purchased in America.

We also have import tarrifs on vehicles that are not at least "assembled" inside of America.

We have similar tariffs and restrictions on just about everything in and out of this country. This is how our economy has functioned for well over several decades now. Getting more prohibitive and selectively restrictive as the years go on.

Customs duties in the United States - Wikipedia

That is why I laugh at this concept of what we have being free trade. That Americans working abroad, but being forced to pay taxes back to America from wages earned abroad, is somehow open borders. There is only one other (tiny) nation on the planet that does this toward its citizens.

Everything is already about protectionism and one way benefits. To the point that you can hear the giant sucking sound and vacuum of glaring discrepancies and exploitation differences between nations now.

I mean ffs we can't even have two robots fake battle against one another without it costing 300-500k to ship them and endless amounts of customs paperwork explaining what every god damn part and pipe is about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iofS5OJMewE

Megabots Update: Shipping a Weaponized Mech Is Hard

https://scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net...da&oe=58BD2C60

We don't have free trade. We have protectionism favoring the few at the cost of the many. This is just the next inevitable evolution of that. Everyone is scrambling to preserve their nut before everything has been given away now.

This dude should have been president :(

lol holy **** NOW they say this

wow

so explains eggi's job and every defense contractor on the planet

IE America's #1 export to the rest of the world.

It is like you are lecturing others on how the world works........as the last person paying attention to what is and isn't happening already

fixed that for you

imagine the criticism they would have over hillary's plan to have everyone carbon taxed to death so that they could assemble foreign made solar panels all day.

LOL

they were eating that idea up with a monocrystalline silicon spoon.

as they were Owebama's 800 billion stimulus program and endless new omnibus proposal programs.

Shovel ready folks......except for actual jobs that build something someone might actually want (but could be more expensive)

jfc

No wonder they hate mike rowe so much

I like this too

http://thepeoplescube.com/images/NYT...Dead_Issue.jpg

(especially: Lenin's Mummy example of socialist healthcare that works. haha.)

it is like we live in some demented time warp

an alternate universe

is CNN really *****ing about classified intel issues now?

are shovel ready jobs, with tax payer money, no longer a GOOD thing?

someone said that Cuba has better schools and healthcare than the USA

probably while standing in a Chicago teacher union protest line

Editorial: No way all those absent Chicago teachers are ill

Almost 1 in 4 Illinois teachers miss 10-plus days of school year

maybe we suck so bad at our job we should leave school again and go on strike

96 Percent of Chicago Teachers Vote to Strike, Union Says

https://assets.dnainfo.com/generated...extralarge.jpg

can't look at that group and wonder how our school system sucks

but can look at them and see how we became this god damn dishonest

Trump should offer tax breaks and subsidies to any company who wants to manufacture green industry products in the rust belt. I want him to troll the left's hatred with things they love.

5d chess baby

Yeah that's about what I expected a Chicago teachers union would look like.

ahahhahaha

i mean he is entering new dimensions of trolling

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/in....w529.h352.jpg

dance puppets dance. the only way he can get the MSM to denounce something is if he says he is for it.

He should talk about appointing HRC as his SoS so that CNN can finally rip her to pieces and speculate wildly while flinging their arms and last remaining feces into the air.

Does this mean she is a Russian agent? A Putin perpetrator?

The average CTU teacher earns $71,017 per year, or $25,000 more than the median household income in the region.

That's why they have a five-year graduation rate of 73.5%. Skilled educators.

so much diversity

rest of their abilities do not matter

Four injured in restaurant machete attack, suspect killed by police

oh, wait, this wasn't yesterday.....this was months ago

apparently this is just a normal thing for America now.

but at least we have falafel food trucks

i believe it's called pointing out hypocrisy

especially since you guys spent months frothing at the mouth about classified information leaks sending hillary to jail

but it's ok i don't expect u guys 2 understand irony anyway :sunny:

nice try, cael

well, not really

say it with me cael

he is your next SoS (no he isn't)

get used to saying it and suck it up

:king:

sean send me the content pay windows reg edit **** this summer again i totally was like **** this and went to go pretend steph was anita outside while jeph stalked me from the porch

was fun was hoping id get laid but then thats eric's wife