Wonder how many diversity coordinators they will be hiring. Won't someone please think of the liberal arts majors?
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Apple Plans $350 Billion Boost to U.S. Economy Over 5 Years, 20,000 New Jobs, and a New Campus [Updated]
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Maybe. Probably. Most likely? But out of everything they've done, this one has the most chance at not backfiring. Doesn't mean it's a high chance. I'd say 30/70 at best. Better if lots of companies hop on board and bring more jobs back home. The key is they need to be decent paying jobs. Maybe it will all fall apart in a few years, we'll see. I hope not, because we're screwed if it does. But like I said in the part of my quote you chose to cut out, I'm worried this will only end up benefiting the wealthy while leaving everyone else behind.
Some Republicans are probably racist, and I'll bet Trump is casually racist on the inside, but I find it worse that some Democrats actively and openly support racist "Affirmative Action" laws. Everyone should just do what Morgan Freeman suggests.
[doublepost=1516221348][/doublepost]I agree with reforming taxes to better suit multinational corporations so that they don't end up in situations like Apple's where they get double-taxed for income. It's only fair to them. But I don't like the precedent Trump sets with things like tax holidays for big corps and unsustainable low tax plans that everyone knows will be reversed later. Those end up being unfair to small businesses and American taxpayers. Big corps end up hoarding nontaxable investments and overseas cash in anticipation of the next holiday (like savvy shoppers in those department stores that periodically have crazy sales), while smaller entities don't have such a choice.
Lower taxes across the board in line with reducing spending, keep things simple, and good things will come. All we're doing right now is digging ourselves deeper into the debt grave and making everyone inflation-happy.
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That could be with millions of Americans receiving bonuses and wage increases since the tax bill was passed. I mean the more you make the more you pay. That is the system. BTW it did not take away health care from anyone -- it allows people to not have to buy it or be penalized. Big difference. Frankly I wish they gutted the entire health care bill and started from scratch. My premium (middle age, perfect health, don't smoke, 8 hours of exercise/week) went from $400 to $1100/mo this year under O'Care. Before O'Care I was paying $250/mo. O'Care is a colossal failure just like it was designed to be. If you want to talk about breaking the backs of the middle class stop there.
If they really go through with this, I'll (partially) forgive them for their iPhone throttling!
Just because Americans aren't invested in stocks doesn't mean they don't indicate overall economic success. Generally all boats get lifted as the market becomes stronger and those corps hire people, as long as it's not a bubble (which I fear it is). Edit: Also if the corps develop new and useful products that improve our lives, that counts.
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Look at what he started with and what he ended with. I'm not going to attribute that all to him, but he's kept us out of wars enough that he must have had something to do with it. He had to make some gutsy economic decisions during the recession, and he was pretty business friendly in the grand scheme of things. Look at Hillary Clinton's or Bernie Sander's plan or most of Europe.
You know, we'd be doing so great if it weren't for the Iraq war and all the other nonsense the previous administrations got us into.
Aren't they a communist government? They certainly seem to be making communism work for them.
Yes, the tax bill was a good thing for Apple, and other large corporations. No, it's not good for Americans as a whole. It's wonderful they're hiring 20,000 new people, but (a) hiring decisions are generally based on need rather than cash on hand, and (b) the tax gift to Apple just this year would be enough to pay all those people for decades and still have billions left over.
As a country, the tax bill generates $1.5 Trillion in debt over the next 10 years, or roughly $5,000 for every man, woman, and child. So unless your tax cut (if you even get one after the slashes to deductions) is >$5,000 for every member of your family over the next 10 years, you are losing. Personally, as someone who pays a lot of state/local/property taxes and donates a lot to charity, my taxes are actually going up, in addition to the $20,000 share in the national debt.
Oh, and crediting Trump for the stock market would be like crediting Nixon for the moon landing. It happened during his administration, but he had nothing to do with it. And taking the measurement back to election day is laughable, given that he wasn't even in office yet. Nope, stocks respond to fundamentals, and the fundamentals (earnings, mainly) have been very strong. Can't wait to see who Trump blames once the market corrects, as it always does. Guarantee at that point he'll have nothing to do with it.
As a country, the tax bill generates $1.5 Trillion in debt over the next 10 years, or roughly $5,000 for every man, woman, and child. So unless your tax cut (if you even get one after the slashes to deductions) is >$5,000 for every member of your family over the next 10 years, you are losing. Personally, as someone who pays a lot of state/local/property taxes and donates a lot to charity, my taxes are actually going up, in addition to the $20,000 share in the national debt.
Oh, and crediting Trump for the stock market would be like crediting Nixon for the moon landing. It happened during his administration, but he had nothing to do with it. And taking the measurement back to election day is laughable, given that he wasn't even in office yet. Nope, stocks respond to fundamentals, and the fundamentals (earnings, mainly) have been very strong. Can't wait to see who Trump blames once the market corrects, as it always does. Guarantee at that point he'll have nothing to do with it.
Obama started with an economy in full blown recession hurtling towards depression and the dow sat at 7k. Obama left it at 19k. He did just fine and Apple and the App economy was growing steadily. The problem for Apple is they can't keep growing at a pace they need without additional workers and they ran the numbers and the numbers showed America was the next best place to invest other than China. It's really that simple.
I just ate a delicious chocolate chip cookie! THANKS PRESIDENT TRUMP FOR THAT COOKIE! Obama didn't give me cookies. 
MAGA!
MAGA!
No laws were in place to prevent them. The system is stupid, slow, and out of date, and we (fortunately) don't go after people without good proof of wrongdoing. The laws just need to be rethought to deal with these loopholes.
That's strange, my paycheck is getting bigger. Hard to see how that hurts me.
He should be putting solar, wind, and nuclear power into those places where people used to work in coal mines. I'm probably a bit more in favor of Trump than you are, but it's really bothered me in particular how much he wants to invest in coal mining when there are obviously better alternatives that would also educate many Americans as they adapt to them. No matter what the job is*, people's brains turn to vegetables if they never learn something new. That and we're also slowly destroying our land.
* I'd also say this about all the B-rate software engineers in SF
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What is really sad is that the Left just can't bring themselves to concede any success, no matter how small, to the President.
And the tech press won't either, however when there's some sort of failure they're all over it.
Unbiased, fair, and balanced reporting is truly dead.
Donald Trump had nothing to do with it......anymore than a rooster crowing makes the sun come out in the morning.
It was always dead. It just wasn't obvious until there was such a controversial president/candidate. But hey, it's also sad if you look at Republicans' stances before and after Trump got the nomination.