Wow! Congrats, AT&T employees! That's fantastic.

So NOW how much do each of those 200k employees make per hour this year? Wouldn’t you hate to be employee # 200,001?

From AT&T press release in November:

Quote:Between 2012 and 2016, AT&T’s total investment in the United States, including capital investment and acquisitions of spectrum and wireless operations, was nearly $135 billion — more than any other public company.

So an additional 1 billion is really peanuts by comparison.

Good for them. I hope it helps their business...of course their beef with Justice Department might disappear now. We'll see.

(12-20-2017 03:19 PM)Kronke Wrote:  Wow! Congrats, AT&T employees! That's fantastic.

MAGA

(12-20-2017 03:25 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  From AT&T press release in November:

Quote:Between 2012 and 2016, AT&T’s total investment in the United States, including capital investment and acquisitions of spectrum and wireless operations, was nearly $135 billion — more than any other public company.

So an additional 1 billion is really peanuts by comparison.

Good for them. I hope it helps their business...of course their beef with Justice Department might disappear now. We'll see.

Yes, additional. It all adds up. The big story here is the fantastic bonuses!

(12-20-2017 03:26 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:25 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  From AT&T press release in November:

Quote:Between 2012 and 2016, AT&T’s total investment in the United States, including capital investment and acquisitions of spectrum and wireless operations, was nearly $135 billion — more than any other public company.

So an additional 1 billion is really peanuts by comparison.

Good for them. I hope it helps their business...of course their beef with Justice Department might disappear now. We'll see.

Yes, additional. It all adds up. The big story here is the fantastic bonuses!

Right...an additional 3.7% of their yearly average. Again, peanuts. But good for their employees. However, if this is an outlier, it's basically meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Especially if we find out this greases the justice departments palms to approve their merger.

(12-20-2017 03:25 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  From AT&T press release in November:

Quote:Between 2012 and 2016, AT&T’s total investment in the United States, including capital investment and acquisitions of spectrum and wireless operations, was nearly $135 billion — more than any other public company.

So an additional 1 billion is really peanuts by comparison.

Good for them. I hope it helps their business...of course their beef with Justice Department might disappear now. We'll see.

but, but, but, but.....

(12-20-2017 03:36 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  but, but, but, but.....

gonna be a lot of that from the libs in 2018

(12-20-2017 03:35 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:26 PM)Kronke Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:25 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  From AT&T press release in November:

Quote:Between 2012 and 2016, AT&T’s total investment in the United States, including capital investment and acquisitions of spectrum and wireless operations, was nearly $135 billion — more than any other public company.

So an additional 1 billion is really peanuts by comparison.

Good for them. I hope it helps their business...of course their beef with Justice Department might disappear now. We'll see.

Yes, additional. It all adds up. The big story here is the fantastic bonuses!

Right...an additional 3.7% of their yearly average. Again, peanuts. But good for their employees. However, if this is an outlier, it's basically meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Especially if we find out this greases the justice departments palms to approve their merger.

^^^^^^

spinning like a top

(12-20-2017 03:37 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:36 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  but, but, but, but.....

gonna be a lot of that from the libs in 2018

yep! I guess $1k bonus is not good enough for them.

Maybe they can hire somebody to make their DNS servers not garbage now. Or stop trying to be hostile to competitor's traffic that transits through their networks.

(12-20-2017 03:38 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:37 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:36 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  but, but, but, but.....

gonna be a lot of that from the libs in 2018

yep! I guess $1k bonus is not good enough for them.

Nobody said that. But let's face reality, as I said, if this is an outlier and no other (or a scant few) companies do similar things, it means little for the country as a whole. Do you disagree?

(12-20-2017 03:40 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Maybe they can hire somebody to make their DNS servers not garbage now. Or stop trying to be hostile to competitor's traffic that transits through their networks.

(12-20-2017 03:40 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:38 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:37 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:36 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  but, but, but, but.....

gonna be a lot of that from the libs in 2018

yep! I guess $1k bonus is not good enough for them.

Nobody said that. But let's face reality, as I said, if this is an outlier and no other companies do similar things, it means little. Do you disagree?

yep, I disagree, because I am still getting more back from my taxes under the new Tax Bill! #MAGA!

It's not a wage increase. It's a bonus.

(12-20-2017 03:43 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:40 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:38 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:37 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:36 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  but, but, but, but.....

gonna be a lot of that from the libs in 2018

yep! I guess $1k bonus is not good enough for them.

Nobody said that. But let's face reality, as I said, if this is an outlier and no other companies do similar things, it means little. Do you disagree?

yep, I disagree, because I am still getting more back from my taxes under the new Tax Bill! #MAGA!

I will be too in all likelihood. But these are two completely different things. You understand that, right?

The ONLY way this will be successful is if a vast majority of companies start hiring, increasing capital investment, and/or increasing wages. Without that, a few investments from a few companies will not make up for the loss in federal revenue due to these tax cuts.

(12-20-2017 03:47 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:43 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:40 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:38 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:37 PM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  gonna be a lot of that from the libs in 2018

yep! I guess $1k bonus is not good enough for them.

Nobody said that. But let's face reality, as I said, if this is an outlier and no other companies do similar things, it means little. Do you disagree?

yep, I disagree, because I am still getting more back from my taxes under the new Tax Bill! #MAGA!

I will be too in all likelihood. But these are two completely different things. You understand that, right?

The ONLY way this will be successful is if a vast majority of companies start hiring, increasing capital investment, and/or increasing wages. Without that, a few investments from a few companies will not make up for the loss in federal revenue due to these tax cuts.

with the current spending bill, I agree, there will be a loss in federal revenue, but do you agree that if they pass a new spending bill, we might offset that loss?

(12-20-2017 03:47 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  It's not a wage increase. It's a bonus.

Truth report. And incidentally, unless the new law changed this retroactively, if these bonuses are paid in 2017, they're subject to a special federal withholding rate of 25%.

So after federal, state and local taxes, this will probably be about a $650 net pay to most employees.

(12-20-2017 03:48 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:47 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:43 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:40 PM)Redwingtom Wrote:  

(12-20-2017 03:38 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  yep! I guess $1k bonus is not good enough for them.

Nobody said that. But let's face reality, as I said, if this is an outlier and no other companies do similar things, it means little. Do you disagree?

yep, I disagree, because I am still getting more back from my taxes under the new Tax Bill! #MAGA!

I will be too in all likelihood. But these are two completely different things. You understand that, right?

The ONLY way this will be successful is if a vast majority of companies start hiring, increasing capital investment, and/or increasing wages. Without that, a few investments from a few companies will not make up for the loss in federal revenue due to these tax cuts.

with the current spending bill, I agree, there will be a loss in federal revenue, but do you agree that if they pass a new spending bill, we might offset that loss?

Of course. But what are they going to cut? It won't be defense as there's not enough money there and it's their baby. So it will be entitlements of Medicare and Social Security. Which means they lose the house and likely the Senate for sure.

LOL Only leftists can spin capital investment and employees receiving a bonus as a bad thing.