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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 17, 2008 6:01 am) Health spending accounts are also going to be popular for this next generation. Municipals bonds are for the super rich, since they pay poorly, but are exempt from taxation. |
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Replying to: grbeck (Dec 17, 2008 6:46 am) RIGHT AP Online 08-31-1999 Former GM Supervisors Charged FLINT, Mich. (AP) -- Three former General Motors supervisors were charged with scheming to get more than $2 million in kickbacks and gifts from companies that did business with the automaker. Investigators said the suspects, who no longer work for GM, told suppliers to raise prices on goods and services and submit fake bills. The suppliers were then paid by GM and kick backed a payment to the three suspects. The vendors also gave the supervisors gifts such as trips to Las Vegas, motorcycles and a tanning salon membership to keep GM business, investigators told The Flint Journal.
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 17, 2008 8:25 am) While that may be true, I thought the Japanese did other things like mandatory inspections of the imports, then drag their feet inspecting them, to discourage their importation.
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Dec 17, 2008 6:59 pm) 
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Dec 17, 2008 4:22 pm) But vexed by the rise of lower-wage competitors, including Hyundai Motor in Montgomery, Alabama, and Nissan Motor in Canton, Mississippi, Toyota has been on a campaign to establish new plants that can pay lower hourly rates than its more-established U.S. plants. Starting wages for workers at Toyota's San Antonio Tundra pickup plant, which opened in 2006, began at $15.50 an hour and are scheduled to grow to $21 an hour in 2009. And assembly workers at the company's planned Prius factory near Tupelo, Mississippi, are expected to earn $20 an hour when it opens in 2010. Yet Toyota's Corolla-Tacoma plant in Fremont, California, is a UAW-represented joint-venture with General Motors that pays national UAW rates. http://www.autonews.com/article/20081212/COPY/312129865/1197 |
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Replying to: gagrice (Dec 17, 2008 3:45 pm) I'm looking at their income statement, and it appears that $36 billion was in accounting charges. It doesn't add up to me, but they show a loss of about $4.4 billion, and paying $37.2 billion in income taxes.
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Replying to: dallasdude1 (Dec 17, 2008 6:46 pm) No doubt there. I completely avoid actively managed funds. Seems few beat the S&P like you mentioned (particularly when your limited in your choices in most 401k and 529 accounts), not to mention the higher management fees charged to get substandard returns. No thanks. Health spending accounts/flexible spending accounts are a very nice benefit. Granted the higher your tax bracket, the more you benefit. We've used a health spending account for the past 8 years and with young kids etc, it's nice to use pretax money to pay for out of pocket medical expenses etc.
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Replying to: rockylee (Dec 17, 2008 2:04 pm) Richer people have bigger expenses....There are enough examples of rich people going bankrupt. That said, I am not pardoning them CEOs. They did get paid more than they were worth imo.
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Dec 17, 2008 6:59 pm) No country does that with more regulations than the EPA. Bill Gates waited something like 2 years to get a Porsche he bought through the EPA red tape. Most cars cannot be sold here for one reason or another. We probably have the most protectionist government on the face of the planet. Japan's emissions are not as stiff as ours.
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Replying to: cooterbfd (Dec 17, 2008 7:27 pm) http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/12/business/gm.php If they are lying I say throw Wagoner and his bunch of losers in jail. Toss Gettlefinger in with them. I am sure he is a big fat liar as well. |
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