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Karl Bode
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join:2000-03-02		reply to MrSpock29
Re: 679 million dollar contract

The scale of the penalties are even not remotely in line with the company's overall revenues. Verizon spends $4 million per quarter on lobbying alone. Those penalties are a gift.
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MrSpock29

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Hammonton, NJ
said by Karl Bode See Profile :

The scale of the penalties are even not remotely in line with the company's overall revenues. Verizon spends $4 million per quarter on lobbying alone. Those penalties are a gift.
In your opinion. But I guess we are at a time where we look to heavily penalize companies for trying to do business. A 121 million dollar penalty is a 121 million dollar penalty. If they lost that big deal, should the penalties go down?
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Karl Bode
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quote:
I guess we are at a time where we look to heavily penalize companies for trying to do business.
Yes. Just to be mean. Good insight.
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MrSpock29

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said by Karl Bode See Profile :

quote:
I guess we are at a time where we look to heavily penalize companies for trying to do business.
Yes. Just to be mean. Good insight.
It was sarcasm.
Feel free to delete what you wish.
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Pathfinder
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Mount Vernon, NY
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reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode See Profile :

The scale of the penalties are even not remotely in line with the company's overall revenues. Verizon spends $4 million per quarter on lobbying alone. Those penalties are a gift.
And they shouldn't be. The company does business in many states and that state should be the gauge not the nation.
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ

reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode See Profile :

Those penalties are a gift.
which are a pittance after all the lucrative areas are cherry picked. and the 30 million? written off as a biz loss.
typical big biz practices. * y a w n *
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