Bye-bye Burger King

[Illiterati]

With the acquisition of Tim Horton's in order to avoid paying US taxes, I will no longer purchase or allow BK products to pass my lips.

http://investor.bk.com/burgerking/web/conteudo_en.asp?idioma=1&tipo=43682&conta=44&id=166086

 

[Bluce Ree]

With the acquisition of Tim Horton's in order to avoid paying US taxes, I will no longer purchase or allow BK products to pass my lips.

http://investor.bk.com/burgerking/web/conteudo_en.asp?idioma=1&tipo=43682&conta=44&id=166086

I love ya Lit, but, if that's where you draw your line in the sand then you'd be boycotting most everything around you. However, I take it you won't be getting rid of your Microsoft toys any time soon.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/08/23/mi...shore-to-avoid-paying-29-billion-in-us-taxes/

They are merely following a long list of colossal corporate giants who provide the most common commodities to consumers. Many would be waving bye bye to more than 1/2 the stuff sitting around the home and things they carry around and depend upon every day.

 

[Overmind One]

I love ya Lit, but, if that's where you draw your line in the sand then you'd be boycotting most everything around you. However, I take it you won't be getting rid of your Microsoft toys any time soon.

http://billmoyers.com/2014/08/23/mi...shore-to-avoid-paying-29-billion-in-us-taxes/

They are merely following a long list of colossal corporate giants who provide the most common commodities to consumers. Many would be waving bye bye to more than 1/2 the stuff sitting around the home and things they carry around and depend upon every day.

Or...lots and lots of stuff that we THOUGHT we depended on but dont. . For me, cable and my landline fell into that category. Today, I do not regret dumping those two things one little bit. I cant remember the last time I ate anything from Burger King. I do not shop at Walmart or buy certain categories of items anymore because of that same conviction. They add up! Things get replaced, behaviors change to adjust to the loss easily.

 

[Bluce Ree]

Or...lots and lots of stuff that we THOUGHT we depended on but dont. . For me, cable and my landline fell into that category. Today, I do not regret dumping those two things one little bit. I cant remember the last time I ate anything from Burger King. I do not shop at Walmart or buy certain categories of items anymore because of that same conviction. They add up! Things get replaced, behaviors change to adjust to the loss easily.

http://www.alternet.org/newsandview...f_the_biggest_corporate_tax_cheats_in_america

All the big companies do it. Some use offshore loopholes while others acquire assets with major losses attached and use them to offset profits. It's par for the course. If we would boycott all tax cheats, the only thing we'd have left is to grow our own food and live off the land.

On the upside, spending money with these companies still keeps people employed. Every dark cloud has some sort of mildly lit lining. If one boycotts Burger King simply because they disperse their earnings between their US and Canadian holdings to minimize their tax burden, you'd also be hurting the people who need the income and barely make ends meet as it is.

It's a catch-22.

I don't eat at Burger King simply because it sucks.

 

[Bluce Ree]

Wow. Check out Microsoft from that link I posted above:

10. Microsoft

CEO: Steve Ballmer (With a fortune of $14.5 billion, Ballmer is the 33rd richest person, according to Forbes.)

2010 Pre-tax Profit: $25 billion.

Taxation strategy: Microsoft is a master of shifting income through various foreign countries— “to Bermuda via the Netherlands via Ireland” —in order to limit its domestic income subject to taxation. According to the blog MicrosoftTaxDodge, a carefully timed press release threatening to move the company's headquarters out of Washington state resulted in Rep. Ross Hunter, a 17-year former manager at Microsoft, pushing through “two huge gifts [for the company]: a $100 million annual tax cut and an estimated $1.25 billion in amnesty on its 13-year Nevada tax dodge.”

Microsoft fun-fact: Both US and European regulators have found Microsoft in violation of anti-trust laws – it's practically the firm's business model.

 

[shavedape]

It's a sad state of affairs when a fast food corporation makes economic waves ripple across the land.

 

[Jim of WVa]

That Obama can touch one less dollar is a good thing.

 

[Gatefan1976]

It's got nothing to do with the POTUS, no matter who it is.

 

[YJ02]

It was reported this morning that Warren Buffet is offering to "infuse cash" into BK so long as they stay in the US.

BK's "cover story" is that they want to beat McD;s and starbucks at coffee sales, so TH's gives them that opp.

(just a ?-does anyone else here-who lives in the US-have a tim horton's near you?

we have them in NC PA and in western NY--just wondering)

 

[Bluce Ree]

That Obama can touch one less dollar is a good thing.

Yes, because it all goes into his wallet. In fact, he's Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Reserve and has absolute say where the dollars go. He can bypass Congress and spend like a drunken sailor.

 

[Overmind One]

That Obama can touch one less dollar is a good thing.

How did Obama get into this discussion? When you stub your toe or you get caught behind a red light or if you sneeze, that is definitely Obama's fault, right?

 

[Overmind One]

Yes, because it all goes into his wallet. In fact, he's Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Reserve and has absolute say where the dollars go. He can bypass Congress and spend like a drunken sailor.

I heard he just bought Aruba as a gift for his wife last week, with American tax dollars. His debit card just says US Treasury on it.

 

[Overmind One]

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/10-ridiculous-things-people-blaming-obama/

 

[shavedape]

Kinda funny how BK is moving to the land of universal healthcare (the place that Right wingers scream is a Socialist paradise) to get a better tax rate. That says volumes about how messed up our own system is right here.

 

[Rac80]

Uh you know Burger King has been owned by a Brazilian Holding Corporation for years now right? So your ire seems a bit belated.


What I find amusing is Buffett who wants "everyone to pay more taxes", owes the IRS $1 BILLION (yes BILLION) dollars. gotta love wealthy hypocrites.

 

[SciphonicStranger]

The last time I ate food from BK my tummy hurt for days. Good riddance! (And take McD's with you...)

 

[shavedape]

The last time I ate food from BK my tummy hurt for days. Good riddance! (And take McD's with you...)

I honestly can't recall the last time I was at a BK or McD. Fast food joints have become alien to me. I'm to the point where I don't even notice their existence anymore.

 

[Overmind One]

The last time I ate food from BK my tummy hurt for days. Good riddance! (And take McD's with you...)

I just cannot bring myself to eat from either of those two places, and please add in Jack in the Box and Carl's Jr. HOWEVER, I have become fond of Five Guys. Unfortunately (perhaps fortunately?), the Five Guys burgers start at $7.99 which means that one would not want to eat there every day for lunch. None of them are drive through because they are not fast food. You are going to wait in a line.

 

[Overmind One]

I honestly can't recall the last time I was at a BK or McD. Fast food joints have become alien to me. I'm to the point where I don't even notice their existence anymore.

It is beyond just not wanting to eat fast food....they just dont make the grade. None of them can touch my homemade turkey/onion/garlic/teriyaki cheeseburger. To me now, "fast food" means a quick sliced turkey and cheese sandwich with romaine and sliced Roma tomato and a slather of mayo on sliced toasted wheat. I can take one or two of those to work for lunch, and throw in a bag of nuts and/or carrots. Occasionally, I will accept a french fry from somebody who has gone to McD, but they leave an odd film on my tongue and do not taste very good IMO. I don't even want to talk about McNuggets.

 

[shavedape]

Fries are disgusting nowadays. They have no flavor and they're always overly salty and they sit in the stomach like a lead weight.

Not to date myself but if you aren't old enough to remember when McDonalds cooked their fries in beef tallow then you won't be able to understand my aversion to the crap they call "French fries" today. There is absolutely no comparison and quite frankly I find it very sad when people tell me how much they love the cold, greasy, salty, bland fries they get at McDonalds these days.