Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Foreign Companies in the US Message-ID: <4310@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Feb 90 18:26:12 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 125, Message 5 of 11 Rajeev B Patil writes: > " Tax officials assert that some subsidiaries understate income, thus ^^^^^^ > minimizing tax liability, by manipulating transactions with parent > company." > No wonder the Japanese products are cheaper !!!! Until all this is proven somewhere, I wouldn't "ah-HA" too much. Remember, the popular Japan-bashing is as much rampant in the government as it is in companies like AT&T. Just as AT&T defenders have gone off foaming at the mouth without doing any actual investigating of reality, so too have our trusty government officials. Besides, even if true, it doesn't explain why Japanese products are *better*. I think that has been explained adequately in other posts. John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@bovine.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !