I want to run America like a Business!

[elfs]

And since I want to run America like a business, just as Mitt Romney promises, I will first take a look at those books. Since America is a government of the people, I'll direct my accounting department to assess who are the marginal producers of economic benefit. Since the government's economic income is taxes, it is taxpayers who produce this business's country's economic vitality. Those people who consume more of America's funds than they produce would be escorted out of America, by armed security if necessary, just like a business.

Especially one of Mitt Romeny's businesses.

Comments

Where did that stupid meme come from, anyhow?

[shunra.livejournal.com]

I mean, running a country for the monetary profit of people who invested in it would mean - today - running the US for China's benefit. Is that the official Romney platform?

Re: Where did that stupid meme come from, anyhow?

[jry.livejournal.com]

The idea that China owns a majority of our debt is incorrect.

All foreign holdings account for only $4.45 trillion of our $14.1 trillion debt. So China just has a (not insignificant, of course) piece of that 32% which is held outside the US.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_public_debt#Ownership_of_debt

[jenk]

If the Republicans wanted to run the country like a business they'd be increasing revenue, aka taxes.

[shunra.livejournal.com]

Except they're against increasing taxes, so they'd go out of business. And need a gov't subsidy. And implode (or is that just me?).

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

I believe a very simple way to fix the problem can be done here.

Every single business, tally your employees, stateside and overseas. For every job that's overseas, your company is responsible for the income taxes (average of all your employees) that an in country employee would have paid. And tack on a small penalty of 25% on top of that for the necessary enforcement and calculations.

Businesses want lower taxes? Don't send the jobs out of the country and expect uncle sam to support unemployed families with tax money.

Isn't life simple when you want it to be?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

Better yet: Drop all subsidies and tax-breaks for corporations who have outsourced jobs. You're gonna be mostly outside of the country and only have your big-toe still in this one, then you're no longer a US corporation and will be treated as foreigners.

[pakraticus.livejournal.com]

Those companies that have outsourced can afford more lobbyists than we can.

I keep having the crazy idea of the people taking a bit of bad policy of the 1990s and reusing it for our amusement.

The cable and satellite companies wanted a bit of nasty legislation concerning cable and signal theft passed. Their agents paid off an intern responsible for spell checking a bill as part of writing the final version to put in their legislation.

My thought, given a bill that's going to pass anyways, include a provision that any congress critter that does not cluck like a chicken on CSPAN while making his/her next vote will be immediately tarred and feathered on CSPAN.

It won't fix anything, but it'll make me happy.