Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

[FlagDUDE08]

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Amazing what happens when you remove the ability to mooch. http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201...ad_85_per.html

[Kepler]

Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

Inside baseball: how the BAT died, and with it likely the meager chance of the GOP getting their ludicrous and disgusting giveaway to the rich.

This is very important because it's the only thing the Ryan Wing of the GOP cares about. A substantial part of the GOP, though less than ten years ago, exists only to steal from the middle class and give to the rich. This has been the GOP MO ever since Reagan's tax cuts, through every Republican president and Congressional majority since, and is even behind Republican-nominated SCOTUS picks. It's the only reason the party exists -- the only thing it stands for -- and with a generational opportunity to reduce the American 99% further into penury and debt slavery it looks like they may have blown it, despite their clean sweep of government.

Obviously they'll still try to jam it through and there will be NO help from any Republican on grounds of process or democratic standards, nor the corporate media because, duh, its owners stand directly to gain. But it's all the more important to keep pushing the orcs back until we have our chance in 2018 to kick them out. This is 6000 families against 300 million people. America is broken and lofo conservatives will still vote stupidly on their emotions, but PERHAPS we are in the process of dodging a bullet all because the Flatulent Fluffer in the West Wing can't find his as-s with two hands and a map.

[ScoobyDoo]

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The epi-pen people are still getting their big price for their product.

[Kepler]

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My best friend from childhood is an economist and an attorney, but also, very weirdly, a Trumpie. (He works in NYC and has developed a pathological hatred of immigrants from litigating insurance fraud cases for the last 15 years).

I trust him to evaluate anything with hard numbers and econ theory fairly, and I sent him this with the question, "any rebuttal?"

He usually answers with detailed fisking of the source. This time his response, in full, reads as follows:

Nope. It's a horrible plan.

So Trump has literally lost his only intelligent supporter.

[joecct]

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Ahhh. Wall Street. Push electrons and spend other peoples' money.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40095102

[MissThundercat]

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Yeah, this sure sounds like a limp-wristed how-to-handle policy

http://gawker.com/menards-the-gold-s...ers-1748301120

Wal-Mart is up there too. Covered that in orientation when I started again with them in 2014.

Tyson is also non-union, but if we hear any reports of unions recruiting on the grounds, we're simply to avoid and tell security.

[FlagDUDE08]

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The owner of Menard's had language added to his managers' work instructions that included not on the need, the the how-to portion, of busting up any talk of unionizing by the sales staff.

Unions hurt the workers anyway. They don't care one lick about the quality of work, just how long you've given to their political action committee.

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

Yeah, this sure sounds like a limp-wristed how-to-handle policy

http://gawker.com/menards-the-gold-s...ers-1748301120

[St. Clown]

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I just can't bring myself to shop at Lowe's and Menard's doesn't have the same level of quality in their products. Plus their owner is kind of a knuckledragger himself.

The owner of Menard's had language added to his managers' work instructions that included not on the need, the the how-to portion, of busting up any talk of unionizing by the sales staff.

[unofan]

The reality is that a majority of executives are like Trump (though many of them are smarter). The only responsibility of a corporation, public or private, is to return a profit to its owners.

The second statement has only been true since the 80's, and even then not universally so. Traditionally corporations have numerous stakeholders; the owners, the managers, the employees, the customers, and even society. Then some greedy farkers gained a foothold in Harvard Business School and here's where we ended up.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

The reality is that a majority of executives are like Trump (though many of them are smarter). The only responsibility of a corporation, public or private, is to return a profit to its owners.

[dxmnkd316]

Re: Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

I just can't bring myself to shop at Lowe's and Menard's doesn't have the same level of quality in their products. Plus their owner is kind of a knuckledragger himself.

[Kepler]

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Hunt the rich down, skin them, and wear them to prom.

[joecct]

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Well, this is interesting in a depressing sort of way...

https://insight.factset.com/earningsinsight_05.19.17

[SJHovey]

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What does anybody here know about Sullivan & Cromwell?

As a rank outsider, it seems to me that they might just, um, run the world?

All I know about them is summarized by this one story.

A close friend of mine (we worked for the same company back in the 1980's) has a brother-in-law who graduated from law school in about 1984 or so. His first job was with Sullivan and Cromwell and he was paid a starting wage of $150,000/yr. This guy would periodically call my friend and complain/laugh. S&C had him sitting in an office doing literally nothing. He just sat there. He got to attend a couple of meetings with about 8 other lawyers, but that was it. At the end of the year, he quit and moved out of New York. Said it drove him crazy.