Editors Note: David Morse is the Tax Advisor Director for the Coalition for a Prosperous America. Excerpt: A key problem for American companies is that multinational competitors typically avoid paying a hefty portion of their U.S. tax obligations. [David Morse | September 25, 2019 | Morning Consult] It’s been almost two years since the passage of…
Editor’s note: Senators Rubio and Shaheen are doing very good work making sure federal employee retirement funds are not benefitting Chinese government owned companies, including those that engage in wrongful or criminal activities. During the Cold War, it would have been unthinkable for the U.S. government to force members of the military and federal employees…
Editors note: Fake fraudulent Chinese companies should NOT be listed on US exchanges. They don’t let us audit them. They build Chinese military and surveillance tech. They enrich the Chinese government. And China doesn’t let our companies freely list or establish themselves there. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration is considering delisting Chinese companies from U.S.…
Editors note: China’s subsidies continue in the form of buying equity stakes in private businesses, rather than let companies go bankrupt like they would here. Government-linked investors are knights in shining armor for cash-starved private enterprises [Shen Hong | September 30, 2019 | WSJ] However, while President Xi Jinping has centralized control more than his…
After an initial review of the various 2020 Democratic presidential contenders’ tax proposals, the CPA tax committee noted a lack of progress on corporate tax reform. Committee members subsequently voted on the remaining corporate tax proposals. By David Morse, Tax Policy Director The Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) believes corporate tax reform should stop…
Editors note: CPA supports this provision to exclude China bus makers from receiving US government money. Momentum is building in a congressional spending bill to ban Chinese firms from the U.S. public bus market. The provision is in the Senate version of legislation that is considered “must pass” in Washington and has the support of…
Editor’s note: The US should withdraw from the Universal Postal Union because the agreement forces us to subsidize shipping costs for Chinese imports so mail delivery is cheaper from Shanghai to Kansas City than from Georgia to Kansas City. An obscure, century-old global pact is at risk of losing its most important signatory—a shift that…
Editors Note: Koch globalists admit multimillion dollar campaign against tariffs failed. Couldn’t convince people that they were spending more on cars when people were not spending more on cars. The political network funded in part by billionaire libertarian Charles Koch is going to try a new strategy against President Donald Trump’s trade war with China after…
Editor’s note: Unbelievable! The EU is taking China’s side in China’s challenge to the Section 301 tariffs imposed due to intellectual property theft. Another reason that multilateral efforts to rein in China are a fantasy. The European Union last week rebutted several arguments the U.S. has advanced to defend its Section 301 tariffs on Chinese…
Editor’s note: The title of this article says it all It’s not often that you come across a book that completely transforms your understanding of the world. Just recently I’ve read two. One, Tom Holland’s Dominion concerns the debt we all owe — not just vicars and popes but atheists and social justice warriors —…