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| Topic | Politics Containment Topic 259: Raucous Caucus Robots |
| red sox 777 01/17/20 5:17:22 PM #224: | So while this definitely looks super sketchy, it's not quite as bad as it sounds. In a lot of countries, bribery is effectively required as a condition of doing business. Try doing business in China or Russia or somewhere like that without paying bribes to government officials - the government will shut down your business or investigate you on trumped up charges until you pay up or give up. If American companies are not allowed to pay the bribes required to do business in these countries, they essentially cannot do business there. Of course that makes American companies less competitive on the world stage compared with companies based in other countries that are allowed to pay bribes. Morally, is there any difference between paying bribes to corrupt Russian officials and paying taxes to the Russian government which the government can then pay to the corrupt officials as salary? No, right? But under the FCPA it's treated as different under US law. --- September 1, 2003; November 4, 2007; September 2, 2013 Congratulations to DP Oblivion in the Guru Contest! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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