GOP Reality Show

[CattyNebulart]

The least-taxed first-world nation? Only on the direct, personal level.
Corporate taxation in the US ranges between 40 and 50 percent, varying slightly by state. It is the single highest corporate tax rate in the world.

Lol. That is the pretend tax rate for suckers, if you know what you are doing and properly invested into congress like GE then you would be paying nothing or even getting money from the government. The tax code is so riddles with loopholes and special rules that a) it's an expensive nightmare to fill out all the paperwork correctly. b) you can exploit loophole to taxdodge your way into negative taxes.

Total corporate federal taxes paid fell to 12.1% of profits earned from activities within the U.S. in fiscal 2011, which ended Sept. 30, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That's the lowest level since at least 1972.

while corporations move overseas in order to take advantage of vastly lower labor costs in Asia and lower corporate tax rates in many countries.

Taxes are a minor concern, one is labor cost, the second and for many industries more important cost is that you can just dump the toxic waste outside, and if your workers get sick from the hazardous substances or working environment then you can just fire them. To be fair for many people in those countries that is still an improvement over what they had before, but all the same I don't want the chemical plant 100 miles upriver to dump their waste into what will become my drinking water. Yes that means that many essential industires will not be in my backyard, like mining. Eventually everyone will be richer and tougher standards will be everywhere at which point it becomes cost effective to operate cleaner mines. We will all pay a bit more, but that is unavoidable if no-one wants to live in a toxic wasteland.

And the only way to do -that- is to make it economical for companies to operate here. To show them that they can make, and keep, more by operating here than in some third-world hellhole.

Agreed, but as long as they are willing to allow the dumping of toxic waste in the river then it's very hard to undercut them. The environmental movement is gaining strength in china and they have been improving their standards and safety, but they are still lagging way behind. That said the USA is still the #1 manufacturing nation in the world, they just don't make much in the way of low margin consumer goods, but expensive high margin items like artificial hearts.

EDIT: Hell even fox news disagrees with ECSNorway; http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/06/ ... aise-them/

Ussualy I would find this a compelling argument for ECSNorway rather than against, but in this case I'll make an exception.
E: "Did they... did they just endorse the combination of the JSDF and US Army by showing them as two lesbian lolicons moving in together and holding hands and talking about how 'intimate' they were?"
B: "Have you forgotten so soon? They're phasing out Don't Ask, Don't Tell."