Arturo Armando
The fast-food giant Burger King is causing discontent as another American company that is seeking to avoid taxes to the country that helped it get its start. Burger King bought the Canadian Tim Horton's chain of cheap coffee and its not making people happy North of the border. Unlike in this country the Canadians love their coffee chain that like Dunkin Donuts is everywhere and pushed mom and pop family run businesses out of the market. Nobody in America would really care or notice if Dunkin Donuts was bought out by a foreign company as most of the retail chains outlet were obviously run by people in one region of the world.
Tim Horton's is another story and perhaps its availability was seeked out for other ulterior motives of Burger King. Most are saying that the purchase is a tax inversion and President Obama has long waited to take measures to stop this tax avoidance methods from companies more willing to spend on advertising and purchases than necessary tax revenue the government needs to repair roads and etc. This is another example of a company taking advantage of the system and receiving subsidies so they can choose where their money goes usually into the advertising budgets or CEO and management compensation and not the front line workers that actually make face to face contact of the mundane purchases of everyday business. Until something is done more and more companies will continue to abuse this country leaving it for foreign places adding nothing to the economy of this nation except cheap service jobs and dumb marketing gimmicks. This deal is just a bog corporate giant that is ugly in cheap buildings in America buying out another big corporation that is ugly and in cheap buildings all over Canada as corporations try desperately too move North America into a union.
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