Tax Bill

[mrmarket]

Looks like it's going to pass...so here's a no brainer:

Look at the companies that have been paying an effective tax rate of 35% (many companies know how to knock down their rates with all kinds of deductions, but a lot of old cash cows just can't do it)....all of these companies will get a 20% increase in net earnings if their tax rates get cut to 21%.

So do a search on the highest taxed companies and you'll get some 2018 winners.

[billyjoe]

I'm sure the Trump organization will be a big winner, but how can this be? Trump and most of his family is now in the White House. Who runs the business? Isn't there a huge conflict here? Maybe the current laws don't apply to all citizens, just sayin'.

-----------------billy

[Louetta]

I'm sure the Trump organization will be a big winner, but how can this be? Trump and most of his family is now in the White House. Who runs the business? Isn't there a huge conflict here? Maybe the current laws don't apply to all citizens, just sayin'.

-----------------billy

You're right about the tax bill but there's a two-edged sword here. Do you remember earlier in the year when stores like Burlington and Nordstrom dropped Ivanka's fashion line? And Marshall's and TJ Maxx took her stuff off featured racks and mixed it in with everything else. Can you imagine how difficult it must be to find something in those stores? I can't because I wouldn't be found dead in Marshall's or TJ Maxx. Bloomies still carries her stuff but the nearest Bloomies to me is in Chestnut Hill just outside the city and the traffic down there this time of year is just vicious.

[mrmarket]

I used to say I was going to the Chestnut Hill Mall, then I'd go into Cleveland Circle and drink at Mary Ann's with all of the BC co-eds.

[Louetta]

I used to say I was going to the Chestnut Hill Mall, then I'd go into Cleveland Circle and drink at Mary Ann's with all of the BC co-eds.

I'm pretty much the only one in my family who didn't go to BC.

[mrmarket]

I'm pretty much the only one in my family who didn't go to BC.

This was when I was in high school...it was the only way I could get to use our Ford Station Wagon.