Apple Lobbies for Tax Breaks for Manufacturing More Chips in United States

[Z400Racer37]

It is not preferable to discipline a child, but it may be necessary.

Likewise, free trade between countries is preferable — but it may be necessary to discipline the ones that aren’t playing fair.

Is it preferable, then, to allow the child to carry-on improper behavior, and learn to become self-destructive thereby? Is it better for a child to learn to approach the world by his whims? Or is it preferable to discipline him when necessary? And isn't that necessity preferable to the alternative?

... And don't say it's preferable for the child to not need discipline. That's not reality oriented. The child has done something warranting discipline, the question is do you act accordingly and justly, or not?

The comparison is not valid as it relates to tariffs, however. People have the right to make wrong choices, so long as they don't inflict those wrong choices on others by force -- either directly or through their government.

Just because China violates its citizens' rights by imposing a tax on them for imported goods, does not mean we have the right to shoot ourselves in the foot too. A government violating its citizens' rights somewhere else, is not an excuse for our government to violate our rights, just to make sure it's "even" or "fair."

And the trade deficit is worse by his own standard anyways, so even if we did have the right to do these things, they didn't wrk anyways.

... They didn't work, because the theory is disconnected from reality.

 

[M.PaulCezanne]

Of course. Speechless though at the thought of the money those execs take home and the relative huge share of tax burden in the USA that falls on the middle class.

 

[matrix07]

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/econom...s-tax-cuts-boost-hiring-most-companies-say-no

"Eighty-four percent of businesses said they didn’t accelerate hiring because of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which President Donald Trump hailed as “a bill for the middle class and a bill for jobs.” Only 6 percent said they had more hires because of the law and 10 percent said they accelerated investments, according to the survey....Instead companies put much of the money toward stock buybacks rather than investments. Buybacks hit a record $1 trillion in 2018, a nearly 50 percent increase from the year before."

Not sure how is that relevant in the thread which Apple wants to make a chip in the US when currently they’re having zero capacity to do so. Are you saying the new chip infrastructure doesn’t need “investment” And creating jobs and it will magically appear and run by itself?