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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 […]
[…] create; why not talk about that? Or how about pledging to take action to encourage all of those Fortune 500 corporations to hire domestically? You know, buy AND build in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] I’m sure I’d be busted in a heartbeat. Snarky dames can be tossed in jail…but non-paying corporations? Clearly […]
[…] To be clear, extreme poverty is defined as $22,300 per year for a family of four. HUH?!? WTLF!? FOUR people — and if we’re talking about areas like the tri-state New York region where we pay a heavy tax just to scratch our arses and breathe then we are definitely not talking about enough money to thrive on because it’s barely enough to survive on. The number changes somewhat if assistance provided by the federal government is factored in for things like the luxury of food. **Shhh!! Keep quiet! Some people don’t like it when we talk about government interfering by providing assistance — unless you’re a bank!** […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] bailouts with no strings attached, to continued wholesale tax giveaways for the rich and corporate welfare for Exxon/Mobil and the like, to watered down legislation of all varieties, it hasn’t been a perfect ride. But I […]
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?