Your morning jolt: Coke chief says U.S. becoming more hostile to business than China
Coca-Cola’s top dog on Monday told the Financial Times that, thanks to an antique tax code and political infighting, the United States is becoming a more hostile place to do business than China:
Muhtar Kent, Coke’s chief executive, said “in many respects” it was easier doing business in China, which he likened to a well-managed company. “You have a one-stop shop in terms of the Chinese foreign investment agency and local governments are fighting for investment with each other,” he [said].
And Washington gridlock? “There’s too much comfort. We need more needles to stick in politicians.”
Kent made his remarks at the Clinton Global Initiative conference. See the FT video here.
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Apparently, a certain former political figure has no plans to return to elective office. Bloomberg reports that former Democratic attorney general Thurbert Baker has been hired by the debt collection industry to help fight new restrictions in several states:
DBA International, the debt-buying industry’s trade association, hired Baker, the former Georgia attorney general, to cultivate relationships with key regulators in advance of state legislative sessions in early 2013. That way, Baker said in an interview, the industry will be “at the table to help draft legislation, if it comes to that.”
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The legislative committee that oversees MARTA held a friendly meeting with transit officials on Monday. From my AJC colleague Aaron Gould Sheinin:
Rep. Mike Jacobs, R-Atlanta, the chairman of the MARTOC Committee, said consensus is building among lawmakers in favor of a major change in MARTA funding.
The meeting was a far cry from the days when the committee was run by a more confrontational Rep. Jill Chambers, R-Atlanta, who lost a re-election contest last year.
But by coincidence, while her old committee was holding forth, Chambers sent out an e-mail advertising her new services as a private investigator – looking through court records, conducting background searches and locating witnesses. Her fee:
$25 per hour + expenses (database fees, parking, copy costs, mileage @ $0.50/mile)
Which is a bargain. Jim Rockford was charging $200 a day plus expenses 20 years ago.
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Over at the Athens Banner-Herald, Blake Aued says U.S. Rep. Paul Broun’s Republican primary opponent has surfaced:
Mac Collins said there is a better-than-even chance he’ll run against Broun in a radically redrawn 10th District. He said he expects to make a final decision by the end of October.
Collins, 67, served 12 years in Congress from 1993 to 2005. He said he’s more experienced than Broun, who’s served four years.
“I’ve been there at these tough times like we’re having today,” he said.
But in order to run against Broun, Collins will have to concede that Democrat Jim Marshall beat him in 2006 – something that Collins has yet to do.
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The AJC’s Politifact Georgia today examines U.S. Rep. Paul Broun’s claim that federal stimulus cash used to cut down on childhood obesity is killing jobs.
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State Sen. Doug Stoner, D-Smyrna, is making the case that his newly re-drawn Senate district is just as important to Georgia Democrats as U.S. Rep. John Barrow’s stand in east Georgia. From an analysis by the Marietta Daily Journal triumvirate:
“It’s one of the key races Republicans are hoping to flip to their column — it would help them gain a supermajority and also help them gain a majority in the Fulton County legislative delegation,” said Dr. Kerwin Swint, a political science professor at Kennesaw State University. “It’s also a textbook case of gerrymandering, taking a district that was completely in Cobb, and stretching it far into north Fulton County, making it a majority Republican district.”
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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155 comments Add your comment
Darwin
September 27th, 2011
9:39 am
Does that make him a Communist?
detritusUSA
September 27th, 2011
9:40 am
Well, Mr Kent you go ahead and do business with the communists, I’ll not buy another one of your products. You and your company are un-American!
Centrist
September 27th, 2011
9:42 am
“It’s also a textbook case of gerrymandering”
What goes around, comes around – payback is a b**** – to the victor, go the spoils.
lem
September 27th, 2011
9:46 am
Broun is an embarrassment to this state.
Songbird
September 27th, 2011
9:48 am
Did either of you two actually read what he said. He said an antiquated tax code and political infighting are making it harder to run a business in this country. I don’t think he would be alone in making that statement. China is going to pass us by if we don’t get our act together. We are screwing ourselves and people who make dumb comments like you two aren’t helping.
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
9:49 am
So we should strive to be more like China?
Maybe we’d be better off without Coca-Cola and their diabetes-inducing fructose water.
Michael Marr
September 27th, 2011
9:49 am
I see Mr. Baker has taken his Consumer Protection Division playbook over to the debt collectors. Nice move.
les
September 27th, 2011
9:50 am
It’s becoming easier to do business in a lot of countries other than the United States.
Coke does business in over 200 countries. I have heard that people in Iran don’t want to drink Coke because it is sold in Iraq. And people in Iraq don’t want to drink Coke because it is sold in Iran. And some Syrians don’t want to drink Coke because it is sold in Israel.
I guess now there will be some Americans who don’t want to drink Coke because it is sold in China.
greg
September 27th, 2011
9:51 am
This is why we don’t have more jobs in this country. The big business owners have placed money ahead of the everyday citizens and workers . These big business/corporate elite folks will sell their mother to make a dollar.
TaxWatch
September 27th, 2011
9:52 am
The Coke Board of Directors don’t care about whether a country is red or blue. They only care about is GREEN!
The exodus of American Corporations will continue unabated until we address our repressive tax structure.
findog
September 27th, 2011
9:54 am
well of course dealing with an autocratic communist regime is easier than a republic
coke would have never had made it to where anyone would care what their ceo said had it origionated in China
I am no longer drinking Coke
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
9:54 am
China is merely a convenient scapegoat; private enterprise is who really sold us out.
*watches the invisible hand of the free market hand out more pink slips*
Road Scholar
September 27th, 2011
9:56 am
Songbird; Since Big Business controls our politicians, who then is to blame? Can you say “Pepsi”?
jackie
September 27th, 2011
10:00 am
All right Greg, I suppose that business should just give away their products. That should turn a nice profit and keep them operating, right? You are also probably one of the wealth envy non producers that want to confiscate and redistribute the wealth from the “evil” rich because they don’t deserve to have more than you no matter how hard they worked, or how many risks they took to achieve their “evil” rich status.
well'swell
September 27th, 2011
10:00 am
The truth of the matter is, this is the same “antiquated tax code and political infighting” that has been with us for generations now. so that’s a bunch of BS. Call it what it really is. The U.S. is struggling so bad financially, people simply are not spending the $s because they do not have them. Just like any good w@@re, she (Coke) goes to the side of the room where the money is flowing. There is no business like “Ho” bizness!
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:00 am
lol go back to posting school, jackie
Centrist
September 27th, 2011
10:01 am
Galloway and the AJC must be proud of how many socialists and communists they attract who so dislike our capitalistic free enterprise system.
At least the AJC and so many minority viewpoints have a single place to unite.
DannyX
September 27th, 2011
10:01 am
“What goes around, comes around – payback is a b**** – to the victor, go the spoils.”
Lets face facts. The Republicans have been so bad they can’t run on merit. They don’t trust the public to keep them in power. Republicans know they have to manipulate the maps.
Republicans have been a disaster. Just look at the damage done by Tom Graves, Chip Rogers, Sonny Perdue, Nathan “Show Me the Government Money” Deal, Linda Schrenko, Oxendine, Glenn Richardson, and of course Beth Merkleson.
We had the Georgia Power give-a-way, pray for rain, Oakey Woods, port pork, lobby scandals, huge transportation tax increase proposal, huge property tax increases, failed tax plan, failed DOT, failed banks, toll road lies, and our Governor spends a lot of time in DC begging for more deficit spending.
Of course the Republicans are forced to gerrymander, that or run on their record.
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:03 am
I just love corporations
Laurie
September 27th, 2011
10:05 am
In other words, Muhtar Kent thinks it’s easier to take advantage of the everyday worker and consummer in China than in the States, as China doesn’t make him do silly stuff like pay a fair wage and make sure his product doesn’t make a bunch of people sick. Yes, I would say that’s a fair statement Mr. Kent.
well'swell
September 27th, 2011
10:06 am
…,and I guess Neal Boortz is posting under the name “Jackie” today, because that post is VERBATIM from his radio show transcripts. ‘She’ is what is wrong with the U.S. today – no original thought or real intellect. Just wind her up using that little key in her back. Just sad. By the way, I “produce” to the tune of 120…K, that is.
Ol' Timer
September 27th, 2011
10:06 am
They’ll be singing a different tune if China decides to nationalize their businesses. It has happened before and could happen again. But that’s the risk they’re willing to take for .75 cent a hour labor.
Ratkum Tnek
September 27th, 2011
10:08 am
This is what happens when a fine American company puts some mud country beige savage in charge. Who will they bring in after Mukky vacates the job, someone named Mahmoud with a turban on his head?
Steve W
September 27th, 2011
10:09 am
So it’s easier to do business in a country with less regulation…..SHOCKING! Coca-Cola would have never become what it is now in any other country than the U.S.
LMAO
September 27th, 2011
10:10 am
Is it possible corporations are funding the gridlock in Washington? Quick look up the financial disclosure reports for all the leading naysayers on both sides. You will see my point.
Sick to death of reactionaries...
September 27th, 2011
10:10 am
For all of you who want to boycott one of the state’s biggest companies because he said dealing with China was less difficult than the US, please realize you’d rather not support one of Georgia’s biggest money makers and job creators because he said a simple truth. That’s really well thought out. Stop being so reactionary. It’s embarrassing and foolish.
james j andrews
September 27th, 2011
10:11 am
@Danny X
Speaking of Shady, has the purchaser of his defunct business gotten his peep shows up and running yet?
Ol' Timer
September 27th, 2011
10:11 am
@Jackie — There’s no envy. I just think big business should play by the same rules everyone else does — including paying their fair share of taxes.
A working class stiff paid more taxes than Exxon in 2009 and GE in 2010. And Apple Computer sitting on billions of offshore dollars paid ZERO in taxes in 2010.
Now, I don’t thing it’s wealth envy to expect these highly profitable companies to pay their fair share by plugging the loopholes that the average working class stiff doesn’t have.
james j andrews
September 27th, 2011
10:13 am
@LMAO
You can’t look them up.
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:14 am
“…you’d rather not support one of Georgia’s biggest money makers and job creators because he said a simple truth. That’s really well thought out. Stop being so reactionary…”
Yeah Enron was one of the biggest employers in Texas too
Chuck
September 27th, 2011
10:15 am
Songbird, your observation is correct….these folks can’t read. The fact that it has become easier to do business with China than the USA pretty much says all you need to know about our current lack of leadership. We have become more socialist than China in many respects.
RAMZAD
September 27th, 2011
10:15 am
Muhtar Kent had been eating too much Chinese baby food and munching on too much Chinese sheet rock and playing with too much lead laced Chinese toys.
Heaven help him had his predecessors imported Chinese contractors to build the Coke tower on North Avenue. He would do better keeping his mouth shut or move to China and stay there.
OutsideAJCLookingIn
September 27th, 2011
10:16 am
It’s amazing how stupid some — strike that — most of the AJC readers are. There’s too much regulation and tax policy that make it difficult for a business to compete in the global economy. Of course, liberals read into everything what they want, so it doesn’t matter what I, or anyone else, points out to them. They are ruining this country, step by step, liberal idea by liberal idea.
boomhauer
September 27th, 2011
10:16 am
good article, dumb comments. calling this guy a commie because he is trying to warn our beloved country that we need to fix our problems? seriously.
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:18 am
Haha it’s fun to watch people defend globalization to the death and blame those darn libs for job losses, but not the companies that sent jobs overseas in the first place.
Accelerationism ftw
November 6, 2012
September 27th, 2011
10:20 am
Thurbert Baker has been hired by the debt collection industry
Their LOSS, our GAIN
Harley
September 27th, 2011
10:21 am
The Coke chief tells it like it is. Tells the truth about our over regulation that is stifling business development in this country, and people get all “USA” about it. Well, people, keep your heads in the sand and all of our manufacturing and other companies will be doing business outside the U.S. We need less regulation, and a more educated electorate, and more honest politicians. The tea partier types are doing what they can to cut the “crap” in government, but liberals don’t make it easy.
GaBlue
September 27th, 2011
10:22 am
Do the Chinese consumers get sugar in their coke, or the nasty, tasteless corn syrup we get? Or perhaps there’s a different sort of weird, toxic, industrial by-product sweetening their bottles of fizzie? No EPA to stand in the way there. Hmmm…
I stopped drinking coke when they took Coca Cola Black away from me, after briefly making my life complete with a sumptuous mix of cola and instant coffee, the likes of which could keep a tired working mom on the dancefloor until 2 a.m. Saturday after a long, exhausting work week. Give me happiness and hope for a brief time, then yank it away? Find forgiveness somewhere else. When I walk away, I never look back.
Jill Chambers
September 27th, 2011
10:23 am
HI Jim
Thanks for the nice mention this morning!
btw, I am not working as a licensed private investigator. But I have friends that can do that work – and they do it very well.
It was fascinating to “follow the money” in the Legislature – I’m glad I can continue to use those skills in the real world.
There are many people out there who did not appreciate my research on government waste – but there were very few who could dispute the results of my research.
Fraud examination is now my favorite type of work.
Just wait – soon I’ll be able to tell you an interesting story about some politically-related fraud that may have created unintended tax consquences for a lot of politicians….
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:24 am
Can conservatives go one paragraph without using “regulation” in a sentence? C’mon yall there has been regulation since day one, tell me something I can believe
mum
September 27th, 2011
10:24 am
I guess a country that pays their average worker $10 per week, let you work ’til you collapse, and let you visit your family a couple of times per year, is a superb place to do business. We are happily helping China to return to world dominance, a history that most people seem unaware of. They are greasing the wheels by giving loans and investing in every country that has a resource they know they will need in the future, and all of this is controled by their central government.
We on the other hand are giving our children’s future to China running after the cheap labor so corporations can continue to reap historic profits by making products for next to nothing, and selling them back to us at the same high cost. Those job creators will bring the jobs back when US workers agree to work for the same wages as the Chinese do.
td
September 27th, 2011
10:25 am
Ol’ Timer
September 27th, 2011
10:11 am
You pick and choose data to use as left wing propaganda. Corporations get to write off their loses and their equipment purchases before they pay taxes on their actual profits. This is just like you and I do personally. If you have a bad year that you go to the doctor, hospital, surgeries ect then you get to itemize those expenses and write them off before you pay your taxes.
BTW: Corporations really do not pay taxes. These are expenses that they pass off to the customers in higher prices.
Martin the Calvinist
September 27th, 2011
10:25 am
I’d like to ask who made the tax code, if you are worried that someone isn’t paying their fair share (I’d love to see a definition of fair share btw) how about screaming for tax reform! Lower rates and eliminate deductions! All of them! Make it harder, extremely harder to evade.
Fred
September 27th, 2011
10:26 am
“in many respects” it was easier doing business in China, which he likened to a well-managed company
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Of course it’s easier to do business in a Country with slave labor where all one has to do is bribe the politicians. Come to think of it that IS like a well run company…………
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:28 am
“…Corporations really do not pay taxes. These are expenses that they pass off to the customers in higher prices.”
You fail Econ 1101
neal kelley
September 27th, 2011
10:30 am
We buy goods from china.. does that make us Communist?…
Slow down ...
September 27th, 2011
10:31 am
To “detritus” – if you’re going to boycott all US companies doing business in China, be prepared to say NO to:
Dell, Apple, Coke, Pepsi, GM, Volkswagen, Ford, McDonalds, Home Depot, Walmart, Nike, Starbucks, Heinz, The Gap, Coors, Caterpillar, 3M, American Express, AT&T … I’m just barely getting started.
The reality is – this is a global economy. Businesses go where they can make money … period. You can close your eyes and hold your breath until people stop doing business in China all you want – but the reality is, I’ll bet that 90% of the stuff in your house is from a company that has investments in China.
Devil's Advocate
September 27th, 2011
10:35 am
So the same people bashing Coke and Kent for pointing out the obvious are probably the same people who turn around and complain that our tax code is outdated and too many labor unions ruin the US economy. Two faced Americans only playing every topic to their own angle.
GaBlue
September 27th, 2011
10:35 am
Chuck has a point: “The fact that it has become easier to do business with China than the USA pretty much says all you need to know about our current lack of leadership.”
A good leader would convince American middle-class workers that their time should be worth a dollar an hour or less, and that benefits and safety regulations are for weaklings, and that it’s nobody’s business if a manufacturing facility dumps its toxic by products into the surrounding environment, poisoning the water and killing the fish (So don’t dare report it!) Clean air? I thought we were strong! What kind of lazy God-hating communist complains about air pollution! REAL leadership would steer us away from our soft, self-destructive ideals and into the world of reality and strength. Then WE could eat fish heads and live nine to an apartment too. That will show them!
td
September 27th, 2011
10:37 am
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:28 am
“…Corporations really do not pay taxes. These are expenses that they pass off to the customers in higher prices.”
You fail Econ 1101
Really? How do you figure? What is the first general rule of any company in business? MAKE A PROFIT. If paying taxes prevents a company from making a profit then that cost has to be passed onto the consumer. This is the same principle as when the cost of goods prevents a company from making a profit then the price of the good or service must be raised to cover those increased expenses.
I guess you took ECON 101 for socialist and not for capitalist?
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:37 am
Everything is terrible
Billy
September 27th, 2011
10:38 am
Yeah, above poster, libs ARE the problem, like or not. Who signed the NAFTA into law? It wasn’t a GOP president, now, was it?
Free trade is supported by BOTH parties, like or not. Why anyone supports free trade, I don’t know, because naturally businesses will send jobs oversees. But that, along with PBO and the Dims assault on small business with onerous health care, over regulation, and artificially jacking up energy prices, doesn’t work, won’t ever work. Pile on a zillion dollar stimulus, still didnt’ work. And libs think they can post a bunch of hatefull comments and talk down to those that know better. Yeah, you guys keep punching that keyboard and tell all what’s wrong and how to live, even though it’s obvious the only thing you’re talented at is laying around on your buns and hating others who worked a day in their lives and have something to show for it. Yeah, keep it coming…
oldfart
September 27th, 2011
10:38 am
Translation: It’s easier to know who to payoff in China and you don’t have to pay as many. Politicians are the same the world over and all are for sale. Witness who the former “Democratic” attorney general Thurbert Baker is working for and now this person who sold themselves as a champion of the people has sold out as a lobbyist. Democracy to the highest bidder.
I think the jury is still out on communism as we have yet to see it in real application to an entire country. China would be best labeled a dictatorship by committee and they seem to be playing the capitalism game pretty good as of late. How many billionaires do they have now? Communism to the highest bidder?
Last Man Standing
September 27th, 2011
10:39 am
Ol’ Timer:
@Jackie — There’s no envy. I just think big business should play by the same rules everyone else does — including paying their fair share of taxes.
Yeah, pay their “fair share” – just like I want the 50% of people who pay NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX to pay their “fair share”.
Ol' Timer
September 27th, 2011
10:40 am
Maybe Coke should consult with the Koch Brothers who, inspite of taxes and regulations, saw their wealth quintuple in eight years.
Maybe it’s not the taxes and regulations and a hostile business environment, but the competitive environment that’s eating Coke’s lunch.
Frankly, I quit consuming Coke products years ago, so it’s no great sacrifice for me.
markie mark
September 27th, 2011
10:41 am
@ greg – you need to get a clue…business does not work “for the people”. Its mandate is to get a return on investment for its shareholders. You need an Econ 101 class.
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:42 am
“Really? How do you figure? What is the first general rule of any company in business? MAKE A PROFIT.”
Instead of regurgitating things everyone already knows, look up price elasticity of demand (and supply for good measure). Depending on the product and the market, companies have to ‘eat’ certain costs, it’s seldom as simple as simply passing on the buck to the consumer. It’s fascinating to read and learn!
RAMZAD
September 27th, 2011
10:44 am
Thurbert Baker either sold out his principles or was about to become part of the long term unemployed.
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:45 am
“Who signed the NAFTA into law? It wasn’t a GOP president, now, was it?”
Glorious Reagan signed not one, not two, but three free trade agreements into law as president
Roekest
September 27th, 2011
10:45 am
@ greg “This is why we don’t have more jobs in this country. The big business owners have placed money ahead of the everyday citizens and workers . These big business/corporate elite folks will sell their mother to make a dollar.”
You do realize you live in a CAPITALIST economy, right??? The purpose of any company is to MAKE MONEY. If you don’t understand these basic concepts, I urge you to repeat middle school.
And while I’m not a Coke employee, I can say they do use those profits to benefit this country through charities and what-have-you.
If you think that the sole purpose of a company is to dole out welfare to the least of us, then you, Obama, and the entire Democratic base can find an island somewhere in the ocean and create your own little Utopia. Let me know how that works out after Pelosi realizes she’ll have no more makeup to cover up that hideous, reptilian face of hers.
Alphare
September 27th, 2011
10:46 am
Well, if you can bribe some Chinese officials, every thing is easy for you, not just business, you can try murder too and easily get away.
Maybe that’s why most American business would hire relatives of some high ranking Chinese officials?
SBinF
September 27th, 2011
10:47 am
Gee, a command economy provides a better climate to make billions, whod’ve thunk it?
The Chinese government sets wages, the Chinese government sets prices, the Chinese government decides what is bought and sold. People like Chuck who argue the U.S. is more socialistic than China should take a basic high school government/economics course.
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:48 am
“You do realize you live in a CAPITALIST economy, right??? The purpose of any company is to MAKE MONEY. If you don’t understand these basic concepts, I urge you to repeat middle school.”
^^ Hard hitting conservative genius right here y’all ^^
RAMZAD
September 27th, 2011
10:48 am
Pepsi tastes better than Coke anyway. I rarely drink soda, and never select Coke over Pepsi, so
maybe it is the taste of Kent’s drinks that is his American problem.
Smoke
September 27th, 2011
10:52 am
You get a 32% increase in salary and now make $25 million a year, your running buddy John Brock got a 47% hike and now makes $23 million, and the GOP put a cherry cola on top by keeping your personal tax rate down so that you can create jobs. Meanwhile, Coke laid off 6,000 Americans. Yep, this is class warfare.
td
September 27th, 2011
10:53 am
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:42 am
Companies do eat certain cost but if they do it to taking a loss then they go out of business. If the tax burden on the company makes their product or service untenable then they are going to either pass those cost along to the consumer or find other ways to cut cost (ie shipping jobs overseas for cheaper labor cost, making a smaller portion of a product or going to a cheaper material). You can talk about elasticity all you want and it is a sound theory but the bottom line is a company will make a profit some way or the other or they will go out of business.
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:55 am
If they can’t afford to even pay their taxes, maybe their business plan isn’t sound in the first place.
GaBlue
September 27th, 2011
10:57 am
Smoke,
Don’t you know? It’s only class warfare when we TALK about the systematic dismemberment of the middle class, rising poverty rates, and economic policies which dramatically increase the wealth held by a smaller and smaller percentage of “job creators.”
Actually supporting and implementing the policies that make it happen is not “class warfare,” but “good business practices.”
Smoke
September 27th, 2011
10:58 am
Sorry. The source of the salary information is that liberal rag the AJC, Sunday June 5th, 2011. On May 29th, 2011, the AJC reported that Coke was raising prices 4% because of increased raw material costs. It looks like about 15% of the increase in prices will go to pay just the salaries of Kent and Brock. Yep. Class warfare, and the real working Americans are losing big time.
td
September 27th, 2011
11:00 am
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
10:55 am
If they can’t afford to even pay their taxes, maybe their business plan isn’t sound in the first place.
But you libs want their tax rate at 39%. That is a big burden to handle in the elasticity model.
Smoke
September 27th, 2011
11:03 am
No EPA, no OSHA, no minimum wage, no employee benefits, no FDA, etc. Yep, China doesn’t have class warfare, but America does. On the other hand, I wonder if having a population of 1.3 BILLION has anything to do with business being better in China.
Phil Smith
September 27th, 2011
11:06 am
Jim- You are telling your age. The Rockford Files was not 20 years ago! It was broadcast from 30 to 38 years ago!!! Dude, we are getting old.
doktor
September 27th, 2011
11:10 am
Let’s all boycott Coke Products. I know that I will.
Jeffro Bodeen
September 27th, 2011
11:12 am
Screw you Mr. Kent!!! The bottom line is all that you consider and as long as that is what all corporate decisions are based up, along with NAFTA, then the American working man is bent over and waiting!!
Billy Sherman
September 27th, 2011
11:13 am
“But you libs want their tax rate at 39%. That is a big burden to handle in the elasticity model.”
I’ve never said anything about 39%, but corporate tax rates in the US have never been lower than now in modern history so when corporations and their sycophants start to cry about taxes I just assume they’re either lying or ignorant.
Ghost
September 27th, 2011
11:18 am
So why isn’t he moving Coke’s headquarters to China, if it’s so much easier to operate there? He’s either disingenuous or incredibly stupid.
Please
September 27th, 2011
11:25 am
Oh and he forgot to mention a working class that exists one step above slavery… that helps his bottom line as well.
JAWJA
September 27th, 2011
11:31 am
Every time I see how much this suckers earns(coke ceo) I say I’m giving it up. I believe he’s finally !pushed me over the line. Made a pot of decaf, chilled it, no coke today
As to Thurb, maybe he’ll put some heart in this job. He never did much as AG.
Songbird
September 27th, 2011
11:32 am
All of you who are slamming Coke, don’t know anything about the company I worked for for more than 25 years. They’re not perfect, no company is, but they take better care of their people than most. Coke does all of their production and selling locally, employing local people. They’ve created jobs all over the world and lifted many out of poverty. They donate money and products to people in need all over the world. They’ve helped build wells in Africa getting clean water to people who had to walk for miles before for clean water. They are always the first to donate money and bottled water during national disasters here and abroad. If something bad happened here in Atlanta, they would stop production of soft drink lines to produce bottled and canned water and donate it regardless of the lost revenue. All of you haters need to get a life. All you ever do is look for the negative in everything. So sad.
mike
September 27th, 2011
11:36 am
Coke will remove the finish from your car, they have been poisening Americans for years and is a major player in the “obesity” epidemic in this country.
Edward
September 27th, 2011
11:37 am
Let’s get rid of all those liberal regulations so we can let business dictate the quality of our air, water, stock market, interest rates. Look how well China’s economy is doing, so what if a few hundred kids die from tainted milk, let the free market decide if that milk should be sold. So what if a few hundred thousand die in collapsed buildings from shoddy construction, the free market can take care of that. Let the nearly pure capitalist model of China and its glorious economy be the beacon for how the US should be!!!!
Songbird
September 27th, 2011
11:42 am
He didn’t say get rid of all regulations and safety measures or minimum wages, etc. He mentioned the antiquated tax code and the disfunction in Washington. All of you have just gone off the deep end with your BS. What a joke. It’s no wonder this country is going down the toliet. Just read the stupid comments on this blog.
jose
September 27th, 2011
11:42 am
Not to say that I am boycotting Coke Products, I just stop using them two decades ago because of quality of the product – color sugar water in a can is what they are selling. Don’t miss it at all.
Old South
September 27th, 2011
11:44 am
Coke is saying this because they aren’t seeing the USA as a growth market anymore. We’ve woken up to how unhealthy the core product is.
Dr. Warren
September 27th, 2011
11:49 am
I’m an Atlantan who has lived in China for the past 5 years. Doing business here is never easy. Period. Because Kent is a CEO–and like most American execs, has likely spent little time on the ground involved in the nitty-gritty here on the Mainland–he is offering superlatives to make himself sound savvier than he really is and to complain. It seems to be a common phenomenon among high-ranking businesspeople and politicians who come here for brief visits and get charmed, knowing little about how truly corrupt this country is top to bottom. Keep in mind that Chinese–and some Western–managers who work for MNC’s here commonly use locally accepted, but not-so-Kosher tactics to maintain “Guanxi” (advantageous connections) with government officials to smooth the road, so to speak. Things that wouldn’t fly back in the U.S. It happens all the time. It’s the norm. So maybe we should keep how “easy” it is here in perspective.
DannyX
September 27th, 2011
11:50 am
Georgia Republicans love the Chinese system.
In China the environment is heavily polluted. The priority is making money.
China has a one party system, just like Georgia.
Sonny Perdue spent most of his 8 years visiting China. Deal has already made the trip.
Government officials in China get kickbacks, just like Georgia and the lobby loot. Tom and Chip’s miraculous free million dollar loan would make even the Chinese blush.
China hates labor unions, Georgia hates labor unions.
Georgia Power got a huge break from Georgia Republicans, a mangled socialist mess of a break, that requires the ratepayers to do the job of investor. China would be proud. I wonder if Sonny got the idea on one of his Chinese visits.
td
September 27th, 2011
11:55 am
I can not believe how anti capitalism the posters are on this board. You all have such an entitlement mentality that you think that a owner of a company sets up his business to give you all jobs, benefits and everything else and you do not have to give anything back to the company. Lord help us all when we get to the same way as Greece and we really have to cut. The world does not owe you anything. It is up to you to get an education and work for what you earn.
hunglo
September 27th, 2011
12:01 pm
Yes, we should try be more like glorious Chinese peoples. Chinese learn to follow emperor first and Communist central managment now. Chinese OK with putting lead into toothpaste. It’s OK, Joe, if it makes a profit for central government. You Americans learn to like lead toothpaste and Yangtzee Coke in good time. Yes, you will. Yea, Chinese, Yea!
No more COKE products for my home!
September 27th, 2011
12:02 pm
Well if this is how he feels, then I will ONLY purchase non-coke products for my home. Pepsi tastes a helluva lot better anyway!
Vonny
September 27th, 2011
12:04 pm
to those asking if we should be more like china so as to keep business in the US: The problem is that China is being more like us to do that and that we are being less like us to do that. You want to whine about how “Fine I wont drink coke anymore then!” Fine. Coke does more than enough business outside the US. A lot of you people seem to think of big business as the enemy when they arent. But keep treating them that way and buying into wealth envy and class warfare and soon you wont lose business to communists…youll be one. China is becoming more capitalist everyday and if you cant see that then you suffer the fate of an ostrich.
Ghost
September 27th, 2011
12:05 pm
“I can not believe how anti capitalism the posters are on this board.”
So you equate Communist China with capitalism? I think you’re confused, my friend.
DannyX
September 27th, 2011
12:06 pm
Georgia Republicans love communist China. Sonny Perdue spent most of his 8 years in office over there. Nathan Deal paid them a visit first thing.
Georgia Republicans are shaping Georgia into the communist Chinese model. Republicans here love one party rule. In fact they are doing some gerrymandering right now to help protect it. Georgia Republicans are not confident enough to let the unwashed masses decide an election.
Georgia Republicans hate labor unions, so does commie China.
China is run by corrupt politicians that get regular kickbacks. Tom Graves and Chip Rogers got a free million dollar loan that had even the communists in China blushing with envy.
China hates the environment, Georgia Republicans hate the environment.
Georgia Republicans gave Georgia Power a deal that made the communist Chinese proud, word is the Chinese gave Sonny the idea to charge Georgia Power residential users only to pay for Georgia power’s share of the new nuclear plant.
Georgia Republicans and communist China….bff’s
td
September 27th, 2011
12:10 pm
Ghost
September 27th, 2011
12:05 pm
“I can not believe how anti capitalism the posters are on this board.”
So you equate Communist China with capitalism? I think you’re confused, my friend.
I guess you have not read all the comments my friend. My comment has nothing to do with China and everything to do with the pure hate from some of these posters about corporations.
td
September 27th, 2011
12:15 pm
DannyX
September 27th, 2011
12:06 pm
I am really surprised that you are not praising the Chinese since that is the model you support the US going towards?
The Multi-Cultural Kid
September 27th, 2011
12:21 pm
Jim, you sure do have dumb readers. Of all stripes.
Kimwana
September 27th, 2011
12:26 pm
“…former Democratic attorney general Thurbert Baker has been hired by the debt collection industry to help fight new restrictions in several states”
I’m all for aggressive debt collection. But holy crap, click the link up in Jim’s blog: the collection industry, mainly the “debt buyers”, want to be able to collect $ from you whether you’re the actual debtor or not. Thurbert is a real POS to defend a practice like that.
Butch Cassidy
September 27th, 2011
12:30 pm
I agree with Kent, it is easier to do business in China. No pesky EPA, very little oversight in terms of product safety,a subordinate workforce willing to do whatever it takes for 75 cents a day, and hey, if your managers screw up, just put a bullet in their head. Saves all the hassle of dealing with the EEOC and the Department of Labor. Yep, China is good times if you want take the easy train to corporate town.
MPercy
September 27th, 2011
12:36 pm
There is a common meme that corporations pay taxes. Corporate taxes are effectively a line-item in the budget that is built into the cost of everything produced–they are passed though, just like the cost of raw materials. By and large, individuals associated with the corporations actually pay the taxes, be they shareholders, employees, or consumers.
The CBO produced a report “THE INCIDENCE OF THE CORPORATE INCOME TAX” in which it states “A corporation may write its check to the Internal Revenue Service for payment of the
corporate income tax, but that money must come from somewhere: from reduced returns to investors in the company, lower wages to its workers, or higher prices that consumers pay for the products the company produces.”
And it goes on to say
“Although economists are far from a consensus about exactly who bears how much of the burden of the corporate income tax, the existing studies highlight the significant types of economic mechanisms as well as the empirical estimates necessary for further quantifying the burdens. CBO’s review of the studies yields the following conclusions:
o The short-term burden of the corporate tax probably falls on stockholders or investors in general, but may fall on some more than on others, because not all investments are taxed at the same rate.
o The long-term burden of corporate or dividend taxation is unlikely to rest fully on corporate equity, because it will remain there only if marginal investment is not affected by those taxes. Most economists believe that the corporate tax system has some effect on investment decisions.
o Most evidence from closed-economy, general-equilibrium models suggests that given reasonable parameters, the long-term incidence of the corporate tax falls on capital in general.
o In the context of international capital mobility, the burden of the corporate tax may be shifted onto immobile factors (such as labor or land), but only to the degree that the capital and outputs of different countries can be substituted.
o In the very long term, the burden is likely to be shifted in part to labor, if the corporate tax dampens capital accumulation.
Read that last one again: in the very long term, corporate taxes are paid for by reduced wages available to labor–labor being the bottom rung. The study also says that higher prices for consumers is also a long-term impact–increased taxes are simply bundled into the price the consumers pay.
North over South
September 27th, 2011
12:42 pm
In 2010, Muhtar Kent made over $24.8 million, this included a base salary of $1.2 million, annual cash bonus of $6.5 million and other compensation totaling $738,000 What a greedy @#%$#
jay
September 27th, 2011
12:43 pm
Why? Will the Chinese work for $.10 an hour?
Innocent Bystander
September 27th, 2011
12:48 pm
What a joke. The US being “hostile” to business basically means we have rules and regulations here as opposed to China where simply bribe your way to whatever end result you desire. I’m so sorry we inconvenienced you when we outlawed human slavery a century and a half ago Mr. Coke CEO. Have fun making the other half of the world into lard-butts too.
DannyX
September 27th, 2011
1:02 pm
Pollution in this country was so bad the Republicans gave us the EPA. Imagine how bad it must have been, there has not been an agency created with full regulatory powers since.
Yep, Republicans gave us the EPA and the Endangered Species Act.
Now Republicans are in bed with the communist devil. Well, Nixon did start the whole China thing with that ping pong match.
Nixon gave us the EPA and made friends with communist China, weird how things worked out.
td
September 27th, 2011
1:09 pm
North over South
September 27th, 2011
12:42 pm
In 2010, Muhtar Kent made over $24.8 million, this included a base salary of $1.2 million, annual cash bonus of $6.5 million and other compensation totaling $738,000 What a greedy @#%$#
This man has a masters degree, worked for the company for more than 20 years, worked many 100 hour weeks on the way up, was willing to make the sacrifice of not seeing his children’s ball games, birthdays, being at Christmas, not watching TV and hanging with friends. His life has been his job and now he is getting the rewards for the years of sacrifice.
What sacrifices have you made to become wealthy? It is not like your messiah says that he was lucky. It is hard work to get to a power position, a lot of knowing when to keep your mouth shut and when to say the right thing. It is many years of being the first one in the office in the morning and the last one to leave at night. Working on your own time to be smarter then the guy next to you and out working that person.
Again, what have you done to deserve such money?
WC
September 27th, 2011
1:10 pm
You guys are missing the point – He’s not saying we need to be more like the communists, he’s saying – and this is a shock since he was pro-Obama, pro-Buffett – that big government taxes and regulations make it increasingly more difficult to run a profitable business from the US. Sounds like a Tea-Partier to me! Of course the Chinese communists can make the socialism thing roll because they don’t care if their citizens live or die.
yuzeyurbrane
September 27th, 2011
1:17 pm
It does not surprise me that corporate types prefer dealing with dictatorships.
Stoner is right.
Broun’s race will be interesting–can a normal right-wing conservative Republican beat a crazy right-wing Republican? If your instant mental reaction was to label Broun as the crazy then Collins will win.
Cammi317
September 27th, 2011
1:17 pm
No worries Coke, because when I am in a cola mood I drink Pepsi!
Jason
September 27th, 2011
1:18 pm
You white people are always calling someone communist. You are the biggest terrorist and communist in existance.
emo
September 27th, 2011
1:20 pm
As I recall, the ChiComs used to demand that any US company surrender their intellectual property to them as a requiremant to do business over there. Does that mean Muhtar gave them his precious secret formula?
I knew someone who worked for CC (Coca Cola, not Communist China) for years, and she said everyone there loved the product but despised the company.
PeachPower
September 27th, 2011
1:20 pm
Maybe Mr. Kent should take a look at China’s property rights system. That’s one respect that the good ol’ USA has China beat. Property rights also protects ALL of Coke’s branding and its precious secret formula and is the reason Coke can actually sell its sugar water.
Thank you, Mr. Kent for making it clear that multi-national corporations have a what-have-you-done-for-me-lately attitude. What has Coke done for us lately except make us fat and tax-evade?
Charles
September 27th, 2011
1:20 pm
I hear “Conservatives” say that the main or first thing the government is supposed to do is protect it’s citizens. Usually they are thinking in terms of the military. But they want to completely ignore the protection that comes from regulations. Regulations that keep our society safe. Instead these are looked upon as roadblocks and nusances. That’s until something happens to them and then they want intervention. I wouldn’t be surpised if Mr. Kent isn’t a member of ALEC. He certainly sounds like he is. And many of the business leaders in this country are very responsible for the shape our country is in today. Like someone pointed out, their objective is making profits. And interestingly enough they have managed to do so in spite of a down economy. So why not continue to stick the screws to the American people, it’s not hurting them. Their primary objective now is to get someone in the WH that will make it as easy to make a profit as it is in China. So what if you bring down the country in the process.
Ron Reagan
September 27th, 2011
1:23 pm
Free and free-er markets are the key to the world economy’s growth. All you idiots that are bashing rich people need to think it through. Smart and prosperous countries like China and Brazil are embracing free enterprise while you idiots are voting in moronic Democrats that are embracing socialism (rapidly). Don’t waste my time!
nihilist nick
September 27th, 2011
1:31 pm
In protest, I will only consume Pepsi with my freedom fries.
emo
September 27th, 2011
1:35 pm
I know Ron Reagan, and you are no Ron Reagan! Maybe Ronald, after Alzheimer’s.
DownLouis
September 27th, 2011
1:36 pm
Apparently sales are much more important to him than Human rights. I don’t think the US should do any business with China or any other communist country where people are not free.
But people will do anything for money.
From this moment forward I will never purchase a Coke product again!
Adolph
September 27th, 2011
1:55 pm
This call for a case of extremist nationalism. Boycott Coke. Seig Heil!!!
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
September 27th, 2011
2:02 pm
Wonder how much effort Coca-Cola’s CEO, Muhter Kent, has expended in obedience to Our Creed’s “Annuit Coeptis,” by bringing to justice Bush and Cheney for having committed 9/11?
America’s King, the Creator, G-d of the universe, is not mocked. The DC Quake was a warning to the sovereign People.
Prosperity in business is from G-d. Shall Americans flourish as slaves under the Roman Anti-Christ which has ruled over us since the Fasces were nailed to the front wall of the U.S. House?
Though born in Our Country, it is curious Muhter Kent speaks with a foreign accent. Even more curious is his failure to realize in America, by design, corporations are servant to the People. If he isn’t using his position to restore righteousness on behalf of the People in bringing Bush and Cheney to justice for their treason, he is but a Mammon-worshipping tool of a prevailing fascist plutocracy which must be expropriated and banished…perhaps to a country which speaks Muhter’s “language,” with the same “accent.”
coachx
September 27th, 2011
2:39 pm
Bill Sherman,
American businesses have the 2nd highest corporate tax rate and the #1 highest wages of any other country in the world.
Is that corporate America’s fault ?
Of course not………that is the fault of politicians with no economic or business sense or cents.
Ron Burgundy
September 27th, 2011
2:42 pm
but but but Obama is trying he jus is getting stalemated by the nazi tea party.
Libtards are dumb!
Area man
September 27th, 2011
2:45 pm
Maybe China will hire Thurbert Baker to help collect its debts from the US. Wonder what the commission on that one will be?
Truth
September 27th, 2011
2:58 pm
The reason jobs are going overseas is because that’s where the skills are. They are also young, educated, and ready to bust their arse. All they want is H1B sponsorship!
Luke
September 27th, 2011
3:04 pm
Your “Georgia Liberal” link listed under the “Blogroll” section of this page links to a European pharmacy site selling Viagra. Please correct this by taking the listing off your page.
HOW IGNORANT ARE THE READERS
September 27th, 2011
3:11 pm
It amuses me the article talks about the tax code and how it should be changed to better facilitate business in America and all these ignorant readers rant about they will never buy a coke product again because they do business with China lol. Who do you think buys all of our US Treasuries?? Maybe everyone should stop doing business with the federal government too. I guess ignorance is bliss
James Tavegia
September 27th, 2011
4:29 pm
Mr. Kent, I just bought my last coke product ever. it is clear that CEOs and CFO here in the U.S. are only interested in their own bottom line in order to secure more bonuses for themselves You people at the top do not care about anyone or anything else. Your market share not big enough? Really? Move to China and stay there. Take the guy from Bank of America who made the decision to axe another 30,000 jobs. You all are becoming pathetic. You are not job creators that this country needs you are selfish capitals.
Matt
September 27th, 2011
4:38 pm
Enter your comments here
Git R Dun
September 27th, 2011
4:38 pm
Boo
Jack
September 27th, 2011
4:42 pm
I’ve traveled in China twice. When I traveled to China this summer, I did not see any Chinese People in Beijing or Shanghai drinking Coke. Chinese people do not like Coke.
What good is it doing business in China if you can’t sell the people your product?
Matt
September 27th, 2011
4:42 pm
All of you anti capatilist are complete idiots. Educate yourself before making comments and waisting everyone’s time. Kent was simply trying the make a point that the “commmunist Chinese” have less redtape than our current political structure. Why do you thing unemployment is still at 10%? Corporations won’t hire because they don’t know what their overhead cost will be. (i.e. employment cost) Will Obama enforce the healthcare mandate, change corporate tax structure, implement a VAT tax? Who knows and neither do CEOs of fortune 100 companies.
Ping Chang Xi
September 27th, 2011
4:44 pm
Oooooooo… I rove me some Cora.
L. Adams
September 27th, 2011
4:46 pm
Maybe he has a point. Can we establish a one-party system? Perhaps we’ll hear less about those dumb Democrats or those dumb Republicans and perhaps we’ll have more technocrat-like policy debates. No, I’m not a Communist!
Oh Please
September 27th, 2011
4:53 pm
Why are Americans so sensitive and easily insulted when someone speaks the truth? Ignorance and arrogance, not bombs, will be our downfall.
N-GA
September 27th, 2011
5:12 pm
Why link to a subscription e-mag? Just give us what he said. I don’t appreciate you shilling for another publication. I’m also tired of US executives whining about the United States. Every country has irritating policies/laws/regulations. Coca Cola seems to have done damned well for over 100 years.
N-GA
September 27th, 2011
5:19 pm
@Matt- Coca Cola provides health insurance to all its employees already. Not much mystery there. And before you tell people to educate themselves, try educating yourself. I mean “capatilist”. Really? You can’t even use the “Oops, typo” excuse on that one. And “waisting”….good grief, what a dolt! You follow that with “…trying the make a point….” and then you just can’t stop. You go with “… do you thing unemployment…”. My sides are splitting!
BTW – Most Fortune 100 CEO’s know what their costs are going to be. Their real problem is that they don’t know what their revenues will be.
GT
September 27th, 2011
5:25 pm
Was Muhtar Kent at a Clinton sponsored conference, like in Bill Clinton? And if he was do you think Kent was throwing rocks at Democrats? I wish these guys like Kent would not leave the door open for guilty parties to think he is talking about someone besides them. I think if a chairman of Coke would come out and say the Republican Party and their games are making the credit rating of this country go down it would go a lot further to solving the problem. Of course some of those overweight Tea Party people would have to boycott cokes which with a lot of 12 can a day drinkers could bankrupt the company. Hard to be candid when the fat boys stop drinking your product. I can’t tell the difference between business and politics anymore.
NotSurprised
September 27th, 2011
5:29 pm
As former President Clinton said, “The American Dream has been under attack for the last 30 years.”..we were saved by the internet, we were saved by the Housing market but TODAY there is NOTHING left to create or bubble to bring us out of this economy….just remember EVERY GREAT EMPIRE HAS FALLEN…apparently it is now our turn…
Chuck
September 27th, 2011
5:37 pm
GaBlue, nice rant! You forgot the owl, sounds like you are not very happy being you.
GT
September 27th, 2011
5:45 pm
Clinton was right but he said it in a content of we can fix it, not all is loss that is a Republican reaction not Bill Clinton. What this country needed was a wake up call. It needed to remember the wolf being at its door, like the depression of the 30s. Toys like computers are great but we got great in this country feeding the world, inventing better machinery to survive not being Rambo or collecting toys. I dare say the cure of cancer will come from America, the answer to global climate warming, the redistribution of water all will come from this country. It will come from men like Bill Clinton who actually go to the mountain instead of the mountain coming to them. Could you imagine Nixon doing anything for anybody? Name an ex Republican president that is doing anything besides serving on corporate boards and social events. Being poor brings a humbling effect and that brings a sensitivity that understands the needs of humanity. All strange words to the mass of haters, but this will be the juice that saves America, that actually comes from our spiritual DNA that the haters claim is theirs.
mum
September 27th, 2011
5:54 pm
@Truth, the jobs went oversears yars ago but nobody took notice until now, because the wages are less. The middle class in China and India work for a fraction of our wages for the same job at home because they can’t get the visas like before 9/11. Believe me, if they could, they’d jump at the chance because however well they may now be living, they still want to be here. Not to worry, the jobs will go to the next “emerging market” when these folks start asking for more money and the corporate profits slipping.
Armando de Jesus
September 27th, 2011
6:07 pm
It is true that it is easier to do business in China. They do not have any regulations, the country is slowly killing itself with polluted air, and water. Oh by the way they add things to food products that shouldnt be there. On the good side they shoot CEO’s that screw up.
sirwinston19
September 27th, 2011
6:11 pm
You would think that America would open doors for its own and afford businesses to create and hire our own. Instead, we are open arms for other countries to come here in America and take stock, open their businesses and hire their own people; a few americans at best, but the bulk of their to take their money back to their countries and open more and hire more of their own…sinking america people and leave with our money. How stupid some can get. That is what these countries do. By the way, try going to other countries opening up american businesses and you will see just how many of their people has to be hired.
A Different Chuck
September 27th, 2011
6:26 pm
Very nicely worded GT. Bill Clinton is a great man and half the country hates him for doing such a good job.
Smoke
September 27th, 2011
7:17 pm
Corporate tax rates may be high, but they don’t pay that much. Of total income taxes collected, only 20% comes directly from corporations. Naturally, all of the taxes come from the people. But will someone please explain to me how keeping Muhtar Kent’s personal income taxes low will create good paying jobs in America?
Smoke
September 27th, 2011
7:22 pm
Talking about twisted. Dixiecrats are defending Muhtar Kent’s slamming American workers and protective regulations, while fighting to keep his personal income taxes low. Meanwhile calling Barack Hussen Obama a Muslum as a bad thing, while Kent is a real Turkish Muslum. ROTFLMAO.
Smoke
September 27th, 2011
7:28 pm
Truth. The real reason why jobs are going overseas is because corporation figured it out that they can pay high skill Chinese what they have been paying no-skill Dixiecrats.
The Centrist
September 27th, 2011
7:31 pm
How come I don’t see a lot of conservative comical comments?
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
September 27th, 2011
8:09 pm
Bill Clinton a “great man?”
Waco is on his head: the slaughter of innocent Black and White G-d-fearing Americans who spoke too thoroughly on their own radio station explaining Rome’s takeover of Washington, D.C. and America…
…slaughtered by Roman Catholics in the FBI and Army like Lon Horiuchi and all the FBI agents with Eastern European and Hispanic last names.
Look at child molesting adulterer Clinton’s highly unusually-shaped nose. It looks nothing like his mother’s or his putative father’s, James Blythe. Check them out on Google Images.
Then compare the “thumbprint” in the middle of his face to Winthrop Rockefeller’s nose. Dead match.
Never wonder about Bill’s having David Rockefeller’s arm around him at the CFR the afternoon his Senate impeachment trial acquitted him? Or how it was Illinoisan Hillary “magically” became the U.S. Senator from “Pocantico Hills” though never having lived in New York?
Wise up Georgia: the DC Quake was a simple and focussed warning from G-d.
Bush and Cheney must hang. Clinton’s part of the same “bi-partisan” Fifth Column of the Roman Anti-Christ.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
September 27th, 2011
8:20 pm
Recognizing the highly-unusual shape of Bill Clinton’s nose is vastly different from his mother’s and putative father’s and identical to Winthrop Rockefeller’s explains much to those with a mind to know…about Waco, the CFR, Monica, and Hillary’s “magical” ascent to the Senate from a state where she never lived.
Bill Clinton a “great man?”
He is no man at all.
td
September 27th, 2011
8:24 pm
Smoke
September 27th, 2011
7:17 pm
1: It is a question of fairness. No one should be paying more than 40 to 50% of their income to the government, while 48% pay $0 dollars in Federal income taxes.
2: This one is most important. Read the tax law about sub chapter S corporations. You will find that most small businesses are set up this way and the company is paying on the owners personal income taxes. These small businesses create 75% of all new jobs in the country.
Will Jones - Atlanta Jeffersonian Exegesis
September 27th, 2011
8:52 pm
Bill Clinton a “great man?” For those trying to reconcile that easily disproven claim against his signing off on NAFTA, his role in Waco’s slaughter of innocents after the ATF’s illegal assault, his serial adultery and virtual child molestation with Monica, and how non-New Yorker Hillary became the “magically” elected senator from Pocantico Hills, one need look no farther than Bill’s highly-unusually shaped nose…totally disimilar to his putative father’s or honky-tonk mother’s…just look at Winthrop Rockefeller’s matching “thumbprint” in the middle of his face and recall David Rockefeller’s arm around the Vietnam draft-dodger at the CFR in Manhattan the afternoon the Senate acquitted him in their impeachment trial.
The Fifth Column of the Roman Anti-Christ is “bi-partisan:” Demublicans AND Republicrats. Clinton’s part of them…notice how chummy his is with one of his supposed heroes, JFK’s, assassin, GHWBush.
Clinton is no man and no American.
He fooled me just as Obama did.
eah
September 28th, 2011
2:18 am
Of course it’s cheaper. Bribes usually cost less than taxes. Also easier to have your enemies “disappeared” than have lawsuits. Hey, let’s all move there!
Cll1950
September 28th, 2011
7:49 am
Water, “The New Coke”. Much better for you and your children. Put some through a filter and drink you heart out for pennies.
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