Hey Steve, Vancouver is only an hour north, eh.

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Ballmer estimated that higher taxes under the proposal would reduce profits for companies that comprise the Dow Jones Industrial Average by between 10 and 15 percentage points.
“It’s just a question of how much will the Dow come down,” Ballmer said. “It’s not about companies anyway; we’re talking about shareholders.”

36 Replies to “Hey Steve, Vancouver is only an hour north, eh.”

  1. Um, make a big RIGHT when you arrive in Vancouver and come to land of the lowest taxes in Canada, Alberta.

  5. The Keynsians have succeeded in debasing the US currency… past the tipping point. What Balmer is threatening (promising?) is abandonment of the US…
    What barriers are in place? In the case of Microsoft, it’s skillsets and knowledge transfer. This is usually accomplished with moving key personnel and seeding a new team.
    Anyone who doesn’t think the threat is real is inhaling.
    Socialism ignores production for the most part – believing in foolish premises such as Departments of Innovation. As the pond dries up, the die-hard socialists are going to get very, very nasty.
    Balmer Shrugged.

  6. Who is John Galt
    Atlas Shrugged
    Their starting to get worried. So now it starts.

  7. I’ll bet you 90% of Microsoft employees foolishly voted for Mr. Tax and Spend, Spend, Spend. Now Sarah Palin gets to tell them “Told ya so!”

  8. Shaken:
    Don’t overlook the other side of profitibility-
    MARKET SHARE! Keynesians are Stalinists first, and economists second. They don’t care if they shrink the economy, as long as they control enough of it to hold the population to ransom, and take in enough cash to reward their fellow-travelers.

  9. And with your approval money keep pouring into Chinese military, which is now capable of targeting US fleet with MBMs.

  10. Just for the LOLs: http://www.fas.gov.ru/news/n_24516.shtml
    Help yourself with your favourite online Russian-English translator for the press release of Russian anti-monopoly agency in which it informs that it charged MS with violation of anti-monopoly laws by stopping sales of XP in favour of Vista.

  11. Just a guess, but I’ll bet that Balmer &co voted for Obama. Just like Mel Gibson, who’s now going around crying that more taxes are going to hurt the movie industry.
    Somewhere it says, “As you sow, so shall you reap”. (Probably a real old Farmer’s Almanac.)

  12. Just a guess, but I’ll bet that Balmer &co voted for Obama. Just like Mel Gibson, who’s now going around crying that more taxes are going to hurt the movie industry.
    Somewhere it says, “As you sow, so shall you reap”. (Probably a real old Farmer’s Almanac.)

  13. RFC:
    That link was both disturbing and hilarious. At the least it has reaffirmed by belief that techno/dance music is inspired by evil. And I listen to metal.
    And to parrot/paraphrase past comments, yes indeed, “you will reap what you’ve sown”, which I will in the spirit of Metal, attribute to Lamb of God’s most excellent “Ruin”.

  14. So does this article imply that a government policy/program could have unintended results or even (shudder) diametrically opposite results of those intended? Impossible!

  15. Not only did Balmer vote for Obama he contributed $100,000 to his inauguration. It’s enough to make me switch to Apple except they gave even more. Where are the conservative computer nerds?

  18. Didn’t an American software compnay just shutdown CDN operations in Vancouver in 2009?
    Google?
    EA?
    MS?

  21. puddin, that was eBay that recently announced the closure if its Vancouve operations, putting 900 locals out of work.

  22. Ballmer is upset? Watch out for flying chairs.
    Shaken, Ian Vaughan:
    You are both uneducated idiots. This is what Keynes said about money:
    “Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.”
    To suggest that Keynes encouraged the destruction of currency is just willful ignorance. Here’s an idea – why don’t you actually read the book, instead of spouting off nonsense?

  25. An hour?
    How fast do YOU get on Interstate 5 and BC 99?
    You’ll be lucky to make it to Vancouver in 2 hours, if it’s not Rush Hour in Seattle/Everett, and the border crossing is clear.

  27. Pixar already figured it out, have set up shop in Hollywood North.
    Maybe a Toyota Tundra assembly plant in Alberta?

  28. Sorry, kevinb, but that quote came from The Economic Consequences Of The Peace; it’s nowhere repeated in his General Theory. Some off-hand remarks in the latter book can be interpreted to favour mild inflation – look for the part where he says that deficits can be covered by the central bank buying government bonds. The central bank doing so is the engine of inflation.

  29. I guess the great teleprompter does not realize that nothing is so mobile as “CAPITAL”. It will follow the path of least resistence. Come north baby, come north!!!

  30. “Didn’t an American software compnay just shutdown CDN operations in Vancouver in 2009?
    Google?
    EA?
    MS?”
    Nope, that was Ebay that is closing their call centre. MS just opened a development centre here about a year ago.
    HT.

  33. Perhaps his personal political beliefs don’t align themselves with what’s best for his company.
    /obvious.

  34. Vit:
    Thanks for the link to the “Bishop’s Gambit”. I laughed a lot. And, although this is off-topic, wouldn’t you agree that making our kids watch both “Yes Minister” and “Yes Prime Minister” would be much better than their current milquetoast education in civics?

  36. Reminds me of my stint at the Cdn. subsidiary of a very large US based multinational.
    We imported parts and product from the US parent at exorbitant invoice pricing thereby creating an inflated expense to write off against Cdn. sales.
    The object of course being to transfer revenue, untaxed in Canada, to the US parent.
    (Man, I wish I’d saved a parts catalogue!)

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