{"id":61315,"date":"2016-12-13T05:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61315"},"modified":"2016-12-09T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T16:17:40","slug":"61315","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61315","title":{"rendered":"Dodging Bullets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">McDonalds is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-eu-mcdonalds-idUSKBN13X1V9\"><span class=\"s2\">moving its world headquarters again<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0Of course they are. Rich people are rich, not stupid.\u00a0 Remember John Kerry parking his yacht across the bay to save half-a-million in taxes?\u00a0 Same idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The crucial point is that McDonald\u2019s, the quintessential American success story, moved to Luxembourg to avoid the punitive taxation of the US, and now has to move to England to avoid the socialism of the EU. \u00a0Trump is correct about the need to bring those companies back. \u00a0Whether he&#8217;s sincere, and whether he can get any cooperation in Congress short term are big questions but not the biggest one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you ran one of those companies, would you let yourself be suckered into trusting Congress again?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Congress is going to have to earn a lot of peoples&#8217;, and companys&#8217;, trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: McDonalds is moving its world headquarters again. \u00a0Of course they are. Rich people are rich, not stupid.\u00a0 Remember John Kerry parking his yacht across the bay to save half-a-million in taxes?\u00a0 Same idea.\u00a0 The crucial point is that McDonald\u2019s, the quintessential American success story, moved to Luxembourg to avoid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61317,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61315\/revisions\/61317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}