Let’s hope the monthlong Boeing Machinists union strike is close to resolution. Both sides this week tentatively agreed to a contract that, if approved Thursday by union rank and file, will get the planemaker back to work at a crucial time for the local economy and the aviation industry.
A work resumption would also be good news for the 7,500 local workers at Spirit AeroSystems who depend for their livelihoods on Boeing orders.
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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Boeing . . . the company that sucked millions out of the city in tax breaks until they found a bigger patsy, the company that swore up and down they were not selling their main plant, right up until they did.
But it’s all those damn workers, they’re to blame!
Oh, yeah, and they also gave us Tiahrt.
Lord help us all . . .
Corporations do not pay taxes. Only people do.
Right, Joe. And corporations don’t pollute, only people do. And corporations don’t make faulty products that kill people, only people do. And corporations don’t band together to form giant consortiums that create monopolistic power like Tyson foods has done to chicken, only people . . .
Yeah, you can keep this up forever.
Who’s fault is it when corporations go bad? You don’t place corporations in jail. You place the people responsible for it. Yes! Corporations can do bad things, but only the people make it do bad things.
The reason why corporations do not pay taxes, is because they treat taxes as an expense, therefore they raise the prices of their good and service to pass the cost along to the consumer.
Depending on the product and service, but on average, it has about 23% cost of embedded taxes on it that is pass along to you. The corporations do not just eat this cost up. They pass it along. Hense, they don’t pay the taxes, the consumer pays the taxes for them. Think about it.
I’m thinking about it.
How can you be so sure that corporations “just pass the expense along” to the consumers? Maybe they pay the taxes by reducing top managements’ expense accounts.
Even if all the taxes are passed along to consumers, it’s only the consumers who ultimately pay. If I don’t buy crap at Wal*Mart, I don’t help them pay their taxes, do I?
Wal Mart moves when their tax abatement term is up, leaving a worthless building that usually sits empty.
Nope Galahad! If you don’t shop at Wal-Mart, then you don’t help them pay taxes, and since you didn’t buy anything, Wal-Mart has a reduction of goods sold because you didn’t shop there, meaning they have less income, for which they pay less taxes.
When ever you buy something, you are paying taxes for that corporation.
Right, Joe. And if I don’t buy something from that corporation, I don’t pay taxes for them, do I?
Would you rather have a choice or not?
I’d rather have a choice and let some other poor schmuck pay Wal*Mart’s taxes, since I haven’t set foot in Mao*Mart for over five years.
I do not shop Wal mart either.
This result for the union is a message to ALL workers. The company caved after three short weeks without the services of those who make and do. Obviously, management types and the few who kow tow to them were not enough to keep the biz going! Bravo Boeing workers!
And then the Boeing stock jumped $2 after hours in what is obviously insider trading. The company knew it was a good offer early in the day when the $2 spike would have been invisible. I wonder who cheated this time.