Royalty Steuer von 8% auf US Minen - Nationalisierung geplant?

Royalty Steuer von 8% auf US Minen - Nationalisierung geplant?

Ich zitiere an dieser Stelle den User "Aladin", der ein sehr diskussionswürdiges Interview mit Bob Hopper und David Bond reinstellte.

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Laut Bob Hopper und David Bond will die US Regierung eine Royalty Steuer von 8% auf die Minen erheben die noch vom Senat abgestimmt wird und die Vorstufe einer Nationalisierung wird.
Die beiden meinen das Gesetz wird verabschiedet da eine erste Abstimmung bereits erfolgreich war.
Jede Mine die eine ""Produktionsteigerung"" hat wird mit 8% gleichzeitig versteuert zu den zusaetzlichen Angaben die sie schon haben. Diese Massnahme/News diente auch um den Goldpreis im Schach zu halten was heute keine grosse Wirkung zeigte. Man redet von Hugo Chaves und Evo Morales aber was die in USA nun vorhaben ist eigentlich noch schlimmer. Bald hat keiner mehr Bock ein Stueck Land zu kaufen und dort zu minen bei den neuen Steuern bleibt fast kein Gewinn. Bob sagte, bald ist USA ein Land in der dritten Welt, es geht dahin, die Bush Regierung/Kongress kann machen was sie will und fast alles aendern ohne das sich die Leute aufregen......klingt wie Deutschland, da koennen sie auch alles verabschieden im Bundestag ohne einer Volksabstimmung.

Link: http://www.silverminers.com/publications/20080229.mp3

Sehen wir hier wirklich die ersten Schritte einer Verstaatlichung bei US Minen? Wenn ja, sollte jedem Aktionär klar sein, was das zu bedeuten hat. Momentan herrscht noch ein schwerer Dissens zwischen Demokraten und Republikanern. Mit einem demokratischen Präsidenten 2009 ist es möglich, dass die Tax kommt und die Minen das wohl kaum so einfach verdauen können.

Republican argue against Hard-rock mining tax

Written by House Republican Regional Press Office

Monday, 29 October 2007

Republicans voice strong opposition to bill to increase taxes on hard-rock mining:

Everyone knows that abundant supplies of energy and mineral resources are critical to the economic and national security of the United States – everyone, it seems, except Washington Democrats. With their plan to ban American-energy productionundergoing final, secret negotiations, this week the majority is turning its efforts toward banning American minerals production, too, with a vote on H.R. 2262, the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act.

The modern mining of minerals is critical to the manufacture of everything from stainless steel, glass, cell phones, computers, pipes, and jewelry to the development of the military equipment that keeps America safe. But H.R. 2262 will tax hardrock mining as we know it – and the 170,000 high-wage American jobs it sustains – right out of the country, makingAmerica entirely dependent on foreign nations for the materials necessary for America’s long-term economic and national security. Authored by Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), the bill takes eight percent of gross revenues for new American mines andfour percent of gross revenues of existing mines if they need to use any government land…Before Taxes!

What does this mean? Suppose you run a small business with total annual operating revenues of $1 million, but after all your costs and expenses are paid, your net profit is $100,000. Under the Democrats’ mining bill, the federal government would charge you eight percent of $1 million, or $80,000, leaving you with a paltry $20,000 profit – and that’s before you pay federal income tax. Given this punitive framework, would you invest here or take your money and know-how to a foreign country?
The answer is obvious, and it’s exactly why a recent editorial in the Las-Vegas Review Journal called this a “draconian” bill that would shoot the U.S. economy in both feet:

“‘Reform’ sounds good, but the list of outfits backing West Virginia Democrat Nick Rahall’s H.R. 2262 reads like an honor roll of the anti-capitalist branch of the environmental movement…”
“Bob Hopper, who’s operated the Bunker Hill mine in Kellogg, Idaho, for the past 14 years, predicted that a new 8 percent royalty on gross receipts - not on net profits, mind you – ‘would put most mining folks out of business. Very few companies and very few deposits could stand an 8 percent royalty.’ He calls the bill outline going through Congress ‘absolutely terrifying’ and an attempt to drive mining out of the West.”

“‘So at a time that we’re already desperate for minerals,’ Mr. Hopper said from his office in Idaho on Friday, ‘and a lot of our mineral processing facilities have been completely destroyed, this is kind of like shooting yourself in both feet… This is probably the most Draconian thing that I have ever read in my entire life.’”

The Rahall bill will increase the United States’ dependency on foreign sources of mined materials impacting our economy, balance of trade, and national security. It will adversely impact rural mining communities in the West whose citizens working in the mines earn the best non-supervisory wages in the country. This is reminiscent of the famous “luxury boat tax” approach of the Democrats in 1991, which had to be repealed a year later when Democrats discovered that it raised no taxes but did destroy jobs making boats.

Maintaining an industrial base in America – from raw materials to finished product – is vitally important to our economic survival, our national security, and to the fate of at least 170,000 American jobs. This bill fails to secure our national supply of minerals and leaves us vulnerable and dependent on unstable nations with little or no regard for their own environmental concerns and certainly no regard for the importance of America’s free enterprise economy.

Last Updated (Tuesday, 30 October 2007)

http://www.thecherrycreeknews.com/content/view/1952/2/

Democrat would ruin mining industry

Wednesday, January 23, 2008 11:02 AM PST

Editor: I was more than surprised to see Democratic nominee Barack Obama leading in a recent Elko Daily Free Press poll of presidential candidates. Considering Elko County has been and I still believe is a predominantly conservative Republican county, this poll is a bit disturbing.

Citizens of Elko County and northeast Nevada need to give more attention to the occurring events and start taking action. Elko County's economy relies on the mining industry and it is no hidden fact how Democratic leaders feel about the mining industry and additional taxes. With the royalty tax on precious metal already headed to the Senate, Elko County and northeast Nevada cannot afford to see a Democratic candidate take office.

None of the Democratic candidates for president oppose this royalty tax. John Edwards recently stated he thinks an 8 percent royalty tax is too high but offered no alternative to the tax and has no intent of opposing the tax. Barack Obama has not opposed the royalty tax. Obama has stated he wants to raise taxes on the “wealthy” and you can be assured that our gold mining companies will fall into that “wealthy” category. Obama has no idea how a royalty tax will affect the communities that are dependent on the gold mining industry. He talks about tax cuts for the middle class, but Barack is still a Democrat, and when has any Democrat cut taxes? I don't even feel it is necessary to address Hillary Clinton's position on mining and additional taxes.

The more money taken from the gold mining companies by the federal government means less money going back to the citizens of northeast Nevada employed by the gold mining industry and less money being donated and contributed back to the local communities by the gold mining companies. I shouldn't need to remind people that our local schools and school sports facilities were paid for in large part by our gold mining companies. Any negative effect on the gold mining industry will result in a negative impact on almost all jobs in northeast Nevada, as well as our local economy.

The livelihood of all those employed because of the gold mining industry is at stake. The way of life and quality of life for all residents of northeast Nevada is at stake. Neither my spouse's career nor my career is related to the mining industry, but because Elko County is our home, our careers and way of life are also at risk. We need to do our part to ensure our way of life is protected.

M. Hildreth

Spring Creek

http://elkodaily.com/articles/…/opinion/letters/let1.txt