What would you trade?

[SocialistLez]

Conservatives are increasingly talking about our corporate taxes being too high and that we have too many regulations.
I was talking with a Conservative friend of mine on Facebook and I said I'd be willing to lower corporate taxes IF companies paid their employees more.

Of course I realize most corporations don't pay the "official" corporate tax.

What conservative idea could you accept in exchange for them allowing one of your more liberal/progressive or leftist ideas?

[emulatorloo]

1. Tax breaks if they keep jobs in the US. Otherwise they are out of luck.

[Jamastiene]

2. I'd give them complete control of the 2nd Amendment in exchange

for full equal rights for gay people.

I'd rather feel what equality feels like for one day before some nut blew me away than live my whole life with no rights and still get blown away by some nut anyhow.

[Sherman A1]

Interesting

But, what would your "Conservative" Friend Trade?

I personally would trade nothing, because in my opinion we have very little left that they haven't already taken from us.

[SocialistLez]

4. They said they'd trade more union membership for lower corporate taxes. NT

[Sherman A1]

8. How much lower do corporate taxes have to go?

Do they have any idea as to the amount that corporations pay?

[Scuba]

3. How about any company...

...that moves it's HQ offshore to avoid taxes has to forfiet all their assets? These guys are traitors and don't deserve any consideration whatsoever. Period.

[jotsy]

5. What I want is governance with mechanisms that meet the needs of a self governing public.

No matter what label you put on it.

I find the frame of the question being presented as a compromise is a little reminiscent of that old adage about having identified what we are, but in the process of negotiating price.

I'm really not trying to be argumentative, it strikes me as having a price for doing less of what I might think is the right thing. I've never much enjoyed the feeling of being bought. I'm reminded as I type, of the compromised expression Bernie Sanders wore in the days that followed congress' failure to include a public option in the health care package, which I believe he reluctantly signed off on in the end.

[Birthmark]

6. I wouldn't make the trade

Corporations are completely untrustworthy and would abandon any agreement (their half, anyway) the moment they smelled a dollar to be gained.

DO NOT COMPROMISE WITH CORPORATIONS!

Sorry about shouting, but if ever there's a time to shout...

[safeinOhio]

7. Someone saw this coming.

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
Thomas Jefferson

[Terry in Austin]

9. How about "the undying gratitude of a grateful electorate?"

To paraphrase President Bartlett...

[kctim]

10. I would accept their choice

to participate or not in SS, healthcare and Medicare if they would accept a womans right to choose an abortion or not.