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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I've been an Apple customer since 1984, through thick and thin, good days and bad, and people like me kept the company afloat through its 'dark days'. So does that mean that Apple should subsidize my…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TBell I disagree with this sentiment entirely. First, you can't take it with you. So the tax really is on the person(s) acquiring money that they didn't earn, but is being given to him or her. Not on the party dying. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by alienzed Bravo Apple, it's moves like this that will help our economy. Another smart move would be to bring all your overseas money home and pay whatever tax rate the government sets, you REALLY don't need any more mon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Slurpy Yeah, I'd love to see their earnings call after a move like that. Incredible how you would be so disconnected from reality as to advocate financial suicide. If there's no other way around it. Most of us, who are…
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Great news. Too bad they have become like every other greedy American corporation. Builds their products oversees to save a few dollars and for the regular troops here in the states they give them a 4% raise after a year - still not a livable wage…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pooch that's a lot of employees and likely a short time frame. do you also assume the devices will be sportin' ios5? and if it were an effort to familiarize staff, don't you think it might be at more than one store, …
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How about they build a manufacturing plant here in the United States and create some jobs. I suspect they will still make more than enough profit even if the costs are higher. American people need to start demanding that American companies think a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ahmlco Spending is spending is spending. Going into debt to finance spending is a problem, "revenue" or not. Wisconsin, anyone? Then there the minor matter of holding the entire country ransom over the debt issue.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MDCragg Germany is a successful country but even in your post you had to agree that it is largely a capitalist economy and arguments to that effect "have merit". I appreciate that you offered an apparently reasoned op…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MDCragg That is a very good point...America has been sliding more and more toward a more socialist model over the last 30 or 40 years. Which proves my point...because we have also been sliding further and further into…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Duals How about we give an incentive for the behavior we want, e.g. for every 1,000 net new jobs a company creates and keeps in the U.S. we let the company bring back $100m in profits tax free. Gov't gets what they wa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MDCragg Referring to differences between communism and socialism and taking a shot at Sarah Palin is the best you can do? Again...name one free country with a socialist or communist economy that is a tremendous econ…
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Quote: Originally Posted by studiomusic What's 5% of $1.5 trillion? Much better than 0% of $1.5 trillion. The correct answer is that the government needs to close this loophole that allows corporations to keep money offshore and avoid taxes. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by christopher126 Agreed. My only qualm with Apple is no manufacturing in the US. But the reality is, China labor costs are $1 an hour. American autoworkers (including Japanese transplants) are making about $28/hr, Mex…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jume Then Apple store would look like: iPad - From 1299$ iPhone - From $999$ iPod classic - Just 677$ MacBook - From 2499$ MacBookPro - From 2999$ .... Except those numbers are obviously wrong. How lon…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jlf278 My wife recently took her iPhone in to the Apple Store and was told that her 1 year warranty is now void because the water damage mark in the headphone jack is pink. It is definitely light pink, not red at all.…
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well my granddaughter just turned 18 months and she can take my iphone hit the home button to wake it up, slide the button to unlock, go to the photo albums, open up the album and scroll to her favorite picture and open it up (her and mickey mouse o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by CJD2112 That's true. However, Apple needs to prove that this product legally infringes upon any TM's Apple has filed regarding the iPod name and whether the product in question infringes upon the marketplace Apple is c…