Tax bill

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

OK yeah I think you are having trouble interpreting what you're reading.

They are looking at the underlying demand for their business and seeing it declining - fewer babies equals less need for diapers. That is completely separate from the tax plan. What they're saying is they can't make as much money selling diapers, so there isn't as much income to be taxed going forward.

So they're going to lay people off because they can't sell as much. In order to give out the severances for those layoffs, they'll use savings from the tax bill.

So in other words... they had to lay people off no matter what because not as many people are buying diapers and baby wipes. The tax bill though is enabling them to give better severance packages than they otherwise would have.

I thought trump and the tax bill were all about jobs and helping companies develop more jobs in the US.