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07-05-2013 #1
How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
Economist Dean Baker breaks it down:
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07-05-2013 #2
Re: How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
If you're interested, Dean Baker talks about: Patents, Copyrights, & Other Protectionist Barriers...
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07-05-2013 #3
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Re: How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
Now we are living out the creed: the needs of the many are forsaken for the whims of the privileged few. We the people are beholden to Corporations.
This second video on patents and copyrights, I fell asleep on. Will watch it another time..... So far, it is interesting.
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07-05-2013 #4
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Re: How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
I'm so surprised!
I hate being bipolar...It's fucking ace!
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07-10-2013 #5
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Re: How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
I've posted this one elsewhere but it fits right here...
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07-29-2013 #6
Re: How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
Apple avoids $74b in taxes: why it's a joke
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08-10-2013 #7
Re: How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
The Three Biggest Lies About Why Corporate Taxes Should Be Lowered:
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/ite...uld-be-lowered
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08-10-2013 #8
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Re: How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
Funny caption on that cartoon!
Last time I saw signs like that was in Zuccotti Park near Wall Street, held by "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators. The captions on their signs were similar, but the demonstrators looked entirely different from the poor zhlub sitting on the sidewalk in the cartoon graphic.
The OWS demonstrators all wore Timberland boots or hiking shoes, or Nike or New Balance running shoes; they all wore Levis, Lee, or Jordache jeans; they all had fantastic smartphones — mainly pricey Apple iPhones (with ear-buds or headphones, of course), but I noticed plenty of Android devices, such as Samsung Galaxy, Motorola Razr, etc. Many carried tablet computers with them, like the Apple iPad; others brought entire laptop computers with them (Apple, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo). When they weren't demonstrating against the evil of corporate profits, they were bobbing their heads in sync to music they were listening to on their iPods. Cool!
Many had hair dyed purple, green, or orange (thanks to a corporation called "Clairol").
And at night, they all pretended to have a cause by pretending to be impoverished: they would lay out a plastic tarpaulin and crawl inside big, black plastic garbage bags (I could often see light from their iPads and laptops glowing right through the plastic bags).
One television interviewer (who worked for Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, I forget which) asked a demonstrator about his cause: "We're demonstrating against corporations and private property!" "Oh," said the interviewer, "so does that mean the homeless guy down the block can use that iPad your holding?" "Oh, no, not at all," said the demonstrator, "this iPad is PERSONAL PROPERTY, not PRIVATE PROPERTY."
Yes, a genius. I'm sure with trenchant economic insights such as that, the Occupy movement cannot fail to stir a sleeping nation like the US.
Hint: you wanna know what the best way to stop corporations from earning profits is? Don't buy their products!
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08-20-2013 #9
Re: How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
The rich are the poor who've become rich.
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08-20-2013 #10
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Re: How US corporations don't pay their taxes...
But mostly they're children who were born that way, yet suffer from the delusion that they earned every penny.
"...I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."_Alice Munro, Chaddeleys and Flemings.
"...the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way". _Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy's, BLOOD MERIDIAN.
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