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I remember "wealth redistribution." That was when the government took money from hard-working people and redistributed it to lazy, undeserving good-for-nothings. That was a wealth redistribution I could get behind. It didn't hurt that much, and most of the people receiving free milk and low rent housing weren't the terrible people they were made out to be.
But this new improved "conservative brand" wealth redistribution is absolutely killing me. The new redistribution flagrantly lets multi-national corporations and the wealthy move all of the wealth out of America, never to return. Welfare is a drop in the bucket by comparison.
Why do we let corporations and the wealthy just move American money out of America? Sure, it is "their" money, but that doesn't mean they should be able to remove it without penalty. Banks routinely penalize withdrawals. So should America.
When a corporation moves its headquarters out of the United States, it should suffer a penalty, just as if it had tried to withdraw savings from an IRA before retirement age. All of the corporation's assets matured in a vault called the United States, it's security guards, marketplaces, and infrastructure paid for with American blood and tax money. If corporations want to move their money from the people's vault, they should pay.
Outsourcing is similar. If you move a profitable business process outside the country, you should have to pay a penalty on the value of that process. Then, since that movement cost American jobs and competes directly with truly American businesses, the American businesses are entitled to protection in the vault. For example, a tax return processed in India should be taxed on "import".
Americans are such suckers sometimes. "Look at that welfare queen! Go git 'er boy! Go git 'er!!" (Meanwhile sneaky little jerks with wheelbarrows line up to steal our money as we "hound" the poor.)
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