
What I’m Giving Up in 2012
Big money makes writing about climate change action and gun control a lost cause.
Big money makes writing about climate change action and gun control a lost cause.
Corporations have achieved total tax loophole parity with America’s individual super rich.
It’s nearly impossible to find a legislative or regulatory issue related to food and agriculture that hasn’t been deeply shaped (if not outright written) by corporate lobbyists.
With a small army of lobbyists, WIN America corporations twist politicians into giving them tax breaks that hurt the rest of us.
Tax holiday proponents have delivered losses to American workers.
When thinks tanks from the left and the right agree on something, Congress should pay attention.
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.
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.