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Caterpillar Strikes Deal to Build Georgia Plant
Topic Started: Feb 18 2012, 08:31 PM (1,541 Views)
Chris
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Feb 19 2012, 12:21 AM
You're quite correct, Telco.

I also think the corporate tax stucture should be changed so that companies offshoring manufacturing and then shipping the finished product back be taxed as if they never left.
And then they will stop shipping to such a country and find other customers. Just like Canada will do with shale oil should the US continue to block Keystone. Economics is local and global, but it's not national.
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Only problem with that logic, is the US is the worlds largest customer. If it had an economy the size of Liechtenstein that would be a good point.
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Explain.
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Feb 19 2012, 12:32 AM
Explain.
That's self-explanatory, Chris. A company isn't going to give up it's biggest customer. And, even if it did, another company would come in and take its place.
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Feb 19 2012, 12:38 AM
Chris
Feb 19 2012, 12:32 AM
Explain.
That's self-explanatory, Chris. A company isn't going to give up it's biggest customer. And, even if it did, another company would come in and take its place.
Agree. But the US is not a company and it does not trade. Individuals do that.
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Feb 19 2012, 12:49 AM
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Feb 19 2012, 12:38 AM
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Feb 19 2012, 12:32 AM
Explain.
That's self-explanatory, Chris. A company isn't going to give up it's biggest customer. And, even if it did, another company would come in and take its place.
Agree. But the US is not a company and it does not trade. Individuals do that.
What?
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Feb 19 2012, 12:52 AM
Chris
Feb 19 2012, 12:49 AM
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Feb 19 2012, 12:38 AM
Chris
Feb 19 2012, 12:32 AM
Explain.
That's self-explanatory, Chris. A company isn't going to give up it's biggest customer. And, even if it did, another company would come in and take its place.
Agree. But the US is not a company and it does not trade. Individuals do that.
What?
Recall that I was asking for an explanation of telco's "Only problem with that logic, is the US is the worlds largest customer. If it had an economy the size of Liechtenstein that would be a good point." That context might help. He was talking countries, you draw an analogy with companies, but it doesn't really hold.
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I wonder who the Canadians are going to vote for down here.
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Chris
Feb 19 2012, 01:02 AM
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Feb 19 2012, 12:52 AM
Chris
Feb 19 2012, 12:49 AM
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Feb 19 2012, 12:38 AM
Chris
Feb 19 2012, 12:32 AM
Explain.
That's self-explanatory, Chris. A company isn't going to give up it's biggest customer. And, even if it did, another company would come in and take its place.
Agree. But the US is not a company and it does not trade. Individuals do that.
What?
Recall that I was asking for an explanation of telco's "Only problem with that logic, is the US is the worlds largest customer. If it had an economy the size of Liechtenstein that would be a good point." That context might help. He was talking countries, you draw an analogy with companies, but it doesn't really hold.
Didn't think I would have to explain this to you Chris. Lichtenstein is a small country, thus a small customer for a companies goods. The US is the opposite. Caterpillar can't give up its sales in the US because it's taxed. It just has to set its prices such that it can make a profit and pay the taxes. It could easily give up its sales to Lichtenstein and hardly miss it. Not so with the US.
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