Posts by MJ1970

Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley  No, what's absurd is that they've been allowed to.   Clearly we strongly disagree.     Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley  An...

Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley  If the subsidiaries exist solely to provide a channel to evade tax I'd say that's a pretty absurd state of affairs.   Agreed. But what's absurd is that they have to go to...

Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley  Depends what things you would or would not otherwise do, and why the government is impelled to force you to do or not them I suppose.   Fair enough. Let's just say that...

Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley  I think the broader political discussion should be left out of the thread.   Fair enough. I suppose. Problem is that these issues are all...

Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley  Now you're getting into unique absurdities.   Am I? How so?

Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley  Governments aren't companies, it's a silly analogy.   We start and end there I think.   The closer analogy for a government is a criminal gang.

Quote: Originally Posted by gregord  A personnel department is part of a larger firm. If the firm as a whole fails to make profit, it fails.   Exactly. And its productivity, while not measured in sales or...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  Cook should simply say: "If we've broken the law, tell us what we did wrong and we'll fix it and pay any taxes and penalties due. If we didn't break the law, then get off our...

Quote: Originally Posted by Crowley  A Personnel department is also by nature unproductive by your measures, if "productive" is only going to equate to $ output.   You're dangerously close to sounding...

It's pretty lame. I suspect you know that. Your implication was one of a company regularly and deliberately engaged in illegal activity not one that has been the mugging victim of a labor union via the French government.