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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by miracle_code on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:01PM (#11307578)
How about the big and worth billions companys pay for it, it is their share for the future at last? Just talking out of my ass here, but the american educational system is flawed big time in that regard, let education and teaching be free, everybody profits in the end. But then again, a well schooled and open minded citizen is not needed in the big scheme of american things. Who will fight their wars then??? /s
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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by webXL on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:23PM (#11307727)
U.S. corporations have a much higher tax rate than the rest of the developed economies. The vast majority of corporations aren't sitting on mountains of cash like Apple. Additional tax expense is financed by a combination of higher prices, input cost cuts, and reduced profitability. You're not going to get much there.
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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by enraged_camel on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:53PM (#11307931)
US corporations may have high tax rates but that's only on paper. In practice, they massively benefit from loopholes in the tax code that are too many to count. Not to mention tens of billions in subsidies.
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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by webXL on Friday March 18, 2016 @01:03AM (#11310016)
Yeah, but where do those loophole savings go? They flow to shareholders in the form of earnings, which get taxed again, or to consumers in the form of lower costs. You really need to look at total tax revenue per GDP, and we're at the low end of that, but when you consider our high GDP per capita (http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2010/03/taxes-per-person.html), we're in the middle of the pack.

We're actually not that stingy on education either: https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...

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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by randyrand on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:55PM (#11315926)
And there goes the continuation of offshoring.

Next even the companies themselves will leave.

Do people really not realize the consequences of these types of actions?

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Re:Google Puts Boston Dynamics Up for Sale in Robotics Retreat by randyrand on Friday March 18, 2016 @06:53PM (#11315907)
>let education and teaching be free

But I don't think many teachers will teach for free. And the ones that do might not be as qualified.

You could force them to teach for free, but thats hardly ethical.

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