He chooses to ignore that even as corporate profits soar and the rich get richer, unemployment remains high and millions of Americans are tumbling from the middle class into poverty.
Tagged: Corporations
Pay my fair share of taxes? What is this, socialism?
The chamber helps the "built-to-loot" companies.
Left-leaning Institute for Policy Studies and right-leaning Heritage Foundation release the same report findings on the same day: Corporations that claimed tax holidays in 2004 pocketed the cash and downsized workers.
Some of America's most flush corporations are demanding a tax holiday on their profits sitting offshore. But the last holiday produced a nasty hangover.
There's nothing holding back the corporations demanding another tax holiday from investing in America right now.
Super PACs represent the Enronization of our democracy.
Shareholders should reward CEOs for building better products or delivering better services, not for accounting gymnastics that game their tax bills down.
On a press conference call on Wednesday, August 31, report co-authors Chuck Collins and Scott Klinger discuss the 25 CEOs who were paid more in compensation last year than their corporations paid in taxes, as well as other report findings, and answer reporters' questions about the report.
A new study looks at the worst executive excesses - while Congress continues to help CEOs hide their outrageous pay rates from the public.