Fareed Zakaria in his Time article How Lower Corporate Taxes and Infrastructure Can Save the Economy suggest they can indeed. Borrowing low corporate tax rates, investment incentives, and a shift to a territorial tax system from Fed-Ex‘s Fred Smith, Zakaria adds government investment in infrastructure improvement to his economic plan. Right now, because of tax and other policies,…
Category: USA politics
Is it time to end the E-commerce sales tax subsidy?
• Maureen Hayden is the Indiana State Reporter for CNHI. Contact her at Maureen.Hayden@indianamediagroup.com. Normal, Ill. — Dick Smith thrives on competition. At 69, he braved the heat and sandstorms of the Sahara desert this summer to compete against rivals half his age on ABC’s adventure reality show “Expedition Impossible.” Smith was edged out before…
Best of 2010
It’s that time of year, when everyone was to put out their best of 2010 list. Here is my Best List of the Best of 2010 List. Let’s start with Esquires 102 things to be proud of in 2010. Best of 2010: Things that made us proud Esquire PMA’s Best Songs of 2010 Pretty…
Comcast and Level 3 Square Off Over Netflix and Regulation
Level 3 has decided to take it’s negotiations with Comcast to the masses and the federal government. The issue is about the cost of delivering content across each other’s networks, or is it? Comcast claims it is a Peering Issue and the Netflix agreement has caused Level 3 to outgrow the settle-free arrangement the two…
Generation-WE
This video is worth a few minutes of your time. The Generation WE movement is the largest generation in history, they are independant – politically, socially, and philosophically – and are spearheading a period of sweeping change in America and around the world. Check it out.
Is Founder Control in Public Companies a Good Thing?
Another high profile company going public has decided to maintain control while selling a majority of the economic stakes in the company to the public. This time it is Al Gore as a founder of Current Media. I certainly agree, the company’s shareholders have a right to decide the control structure they want to…