Apple and others have huge wads of cash sitting outside of the U.S. because of current high corporate tax concerns. Trump would probably like to lower those tax rates to bring that money into the country for investment purposes.
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Tim Cook to Attend Donald Trump's Tech Summit on Wednesday
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Corporate welfare would not be great for the country. Let corporations follow the law just like everyone else. Let them pay the taxes on the profits they've made. This country is going further and further down the rabbit hole of inequality. There is no reason to give special perks to the very powerful and wealthy.
Jobs was a personal friend of many a creepy billionaire. Inform yourself.
LOL...the only thing Trump is interested in is importing Russian oil to prop up the Russian treasury and aid their expansion in Eastern Europe. Tech? What is he going to do...demand that Apple to take out NATO's computer systems?
It's probably better to go and at least try to persuade these clowns that building back doors and other ridiculous notions they may have are crazy. Trump is going to make such a mess of things for tech especially. What a total fool.
It's amazing someone could actually think this. The Trump persona is the definition of petty.
It would be nice if there was actually evidence to support this. So far he's put together a garbage cabinet, been skipping intelligence briefings because he's "smart," and continues to act like a child on twitter. So great.
Is he going to give the Medal of Freedom to Zuckerberg and Sandberg, for allowing a parallel universe of clickbate fiction written by kids in Moldavian bedrooms to dominate the trending charts?
I think it's funny that, for alt-right weirdos, "social justice warrior" is a put-down lolOk ok, calm down Mr SJW.
Rather than fighting for social justice, or what's right, you'd rather be a cheerleader for a racist clown. Dear lord.
A shame that the truth does not agree with what you say here. Everything Trump wants fixed are very important issues.
I think a tax holiday would really be a good thing. Without one, the money is never being moved back to the US.
It's a reasonable idea. But then you need an educated work force who can do light weight engineering. America has pretty much dismantled public education. That's how these dummies got into power in the first place. Right. So restore public education and crank out some engineers that these industries need and then you might be talking sense.
Poor snowflake, better go to your safe space
Jobs was of Syrian descent, adopted by a white Jewish couple
Really, saying Trump is petty isn't the truth? You obviously haven't paid attention to the man speak or tweet.
And the problem with the issues he wants "fixed" is he has a fundamental misunderstanding of what those issues are. He's not going to fix anything.
No, Trump is the definition of petty. This is a president-elect who goes on Twitter to rant against beauty pageant contestants. He is as petty as it's possible to be, whatever you think of his policies.
I guess we agree to disagree here. Unless you are saying that getting more American people into a job is petty. And imporving the US economy (post the Obama train wreck) is petty also.
I have read more @RealDonaldTrump tweets and watched more Trump speech videos over the past 2 years than I care to remember. Just so many.
The only policy of his I disagree with is his wanting to hard lower taxes across the board. I am against it because I want to see how it is funded before I can say it is a good thing. Tax breaks that are not properly funded hurt the economy.
The question is what will Apple do when the U.S. Govt orders them to back-door their OS's, with a secrecy order attached. The folks Trump has nominated favor a much tougher line on govt access than the current admin (which was horrendous already).
That is the big elephant in the room. If word were to get out of such things, sales of new kit would crash - so most, if not all vendors would want such a thing kept secret as well.
That is the big elephant in the room. If word were to get out of such things, sales of new kit would crash - so most, if not all vendors would want such a thing kept secret as well.
Enjoy when the prices go up steeply. We want jobs to stay in the US but we don't want to pay more for them. The Mac Pro costs a couple hundred more simply because it's made in the US.
It's the giants who aren't paying any corporate tax under the current tax regime.
Trump and Congress should immediately slash corporate tax to 10% or less to benefit the non-giants, the ones who actually have a chance at increasing good paying jobs.
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Someone who knows more than me can maybe explain: We have 4.6% unemployment (fairly hot economy), we generally tend to prefer higher-paying manufacturing (e.g., making silicon chips, aeronautics, robotics) and service jobs, so why do we want bring assembly jobs back to the US?
Aw shucks, they cannot lie to you? 'member when they lied to you about WMD in Iraq?
'member?
Yes the mainstream media can very well lie, either by omission of truth or direct fabrication. Do they? Usually no, but sometimes, oh yes.
