Have you noticed that those who are seriously getting PAID are seriously not paying a damn thing? Seriously!!
We thought we’d post this in light of the news about banks’ record profits, higher fees and unwillingness to pay taxes — all while they lay off thousands of employees.
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[…] Corporate profits are rising along with unemployment rates […]
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[…] budget for the military, and that corporations should face little (if any) regulation and pay little (if any) taxes. In other words, po’ folk, smart folk and folks who think that what goes on in the bedroom […]
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[…] who don’t have portfolios and who end up homeless or poor as the result of actions taken by large corporations and greedy […]
[…] Politicians who remind us of those officials of yesteryear who supported the robber barons; the continued corporate greed and unwillingness to ‘play fair’ by supporting the nation’s coffers. […]
[…] class has seen the American dream slipping away and the poor are trapped in a system of neglect and corporate greed, keeping them from moving out of poverty and into a life of despair and […]
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Corporate income tax is pure b.s. Despite what the Supreme court says, a corporation is not a person. Abolish corporate income tax. If you want to tax, tax wealthy *people*. Then wealthy people will leave their money in corporations, and guess what? The corporations will have to hire people to do something with that money! Hello? Jobs anyone?