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White House Hits Back at Apple's Massive EU Fine
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Marxists?? When? Where?
There is no choice for Marxist progressivism. Not in the USA. There’s hardly any left in the US.
It always amazes me that those who complain the loudest about radical portions of the opposing political party are completely blind to the radical portions of their own political party. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is almost indistinguishable from the official Marxist/Socialist parties of the 1960s in both tactics and ideology.
Congressional Progressive Caucus Has Extensive Ties to Marxist Organizations
Sorry not sorry, but I’ll file that Epoch Times link in the same place I put their precious free subscription when it showed up in my mailbox: the dumpster.It always amazes me that those who complain the loudest about radical portions of the opposing political party are completely blind to the radical portions of their own political party. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is almost indistinguishable from the official Marxist/Socialist parties of the 1960s in both tactics and ideology.
Congressional Progressive Caucus Has Extensive Ties to Marxist Organizations
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Posting an opinion piece from a far right conspiracy website isn't the evidence your looking for.It always amazes me that those who complain the loudest about radical portions of the opposing political party are completely blind to the radical portions of their own political party. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is almost indistinguishable from the official Marxist/Socialist parties of the 1960s in both tactics and ideology.
Congressional Progressive Caucus Has Extensive Ties to Marxist Organizations
I don’t “have” any political party in the USA and I consider the Democratic Party a little less rightwing than the pre-Trump Republican Party. The current Republican Party is dangerously extreme rightwing. Thanks to Trump and his fans. So compared to what the Republican Party is at the moment, the Democrats surely are leftwing…still no Marxist in sight though.
🤣🤣You’re not serious, are you?The Congressional Progressive Caucus is almost indistinguishable from the official Marxist/Socialist parties of the 1960s in both tactics and ideology.
Congressional Progressive Caucus Has Extensive Ties to Marxist Organizations
The difference is simple. The dems have only a few with those radical positions, wheras the entire GOP has drunk the MAGA koolaid. Saying otherwise is a textbook false equivalency. And most indies and dems do call out and detest those positions when they appear. Not sure how old you are but you clearly must not remember the GOP when it was sane.
It always amazes me that those who complain the loudest about radical portions of the opposing political party are completely blind to the radical portions of their own political party. The Congressional Progressive Caucus is almost indistinguishable from the official Marxist/Socialist parties of the 1960s in both tactics and ideology.
Congressional Progressive Caucus Has Extensive Ties to Marxist Organizations
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This. And it wasn’t even all that long ago, was it (or am I old? 😆) when the second Bush was President? I didn’t like him, but he was a far cry from Trump’s madness.
Mitt Romney is like a fever dream for any somewhat moderate person at this point.
At least Mitt would not destroy the economy for his own vanity.
I also don’t believe he would be this cruel and sending off folks to a gulag with zero due process.
You can trace the origins of MAGA back quite a ways, but it really started to get serious in the House of Representatives with Newt Gingrich and company. They could not get their way via normal compromise and such so they went nuts with gerrymandering and other tricks. Then the "Hastert rule" totally destroyed the ability of the two parties to ever agree on anything. But at least the Senate was not infected at that time. That finally happened in the Trump era where the GOP in the Senate became just another MAGA tool like the House. Now you have a SecDef tweeting out classified information on private phones and Trump in the WH trashing the economy, selling out our allies, selling gold sneakers and bibles, and rigging the govt rules *that he controls* to profit his businesses including bogus crypto coins... and the entire GOP says "yes sir, that's just fine". I mean, what does it take to wake people up?
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Yes, that's exactly what happened - the EU has a prohibition on "state aids" - i.e., subsidies to companies from a country. The reason for the prohibition is to prevent the "race to the bottom" we see in the US of states/localities handing out goodies to companies because the company will threaten to take their business elsewhere.
The EU Commission brought a challenge to Ireland's tax regime as it benefited Apple, and won.
As I posted above, the EU has authority to fine 10% based on worldwide turnover, but calculates the actual fine based on other factors and typically ties it primarily to EU turnover. Until the decision itself is released we don't know how the fine was determined.
The EU doesn’t have a blanket prohibition of state eight in fact, allows it under a number of circumstances. For example, Airbus has been a huge recipient of subsidies. In fact the EU lost a WTO dispute with the US over Airbus subsidies, which eventually led to an agreement to reduce tariffs for five years as a settlement. I suspect the EU was more concerned that a US company and not an EU company was getting the benefits of the Irish deal, which, of course is normal for governments. Every government wants to protect its own countries industries and not allow states to protect foreign interest.