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Re: Your Rights, Your Money...
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Date: 
Wed, 4 Jun 2003 16:27:30 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
   The truth, (consistently overlooked by the liberal media) is that corporate welfare *vastly* outstrips individual welfare programs. On top of that, let’s consider the many millions of dollars in tax revenue lost when US companies base their operations in a PO Box in Bermuda.

Yes.

If anyone cares to track it back, I posted about this some weeks ago -- esp. the offshore corporation scam.

I repeat, corporations are granted special benefits as fictitious persons because they are supposed to provide a public good in the way of money returned to the community in doing business and by providing jobs and a not insubstantial tax base. But what happens when they won’t hold up their end of the bargain? In a lot of ways, we have de facto corporate welfare on demand whenever a corporation pulls the offshore scam.

-- Hop-Frog



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(...) That's very nearly a 100% apocryphal statistic. Here's one addressing of the issue: (URL) but there countless others on the web and in print media that draw pretty much the same conclusion. I'm not worried about my Canadian friends who (...) (21 years ago, 4-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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