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Originally Posted by Ed Hammer
GrantMercury = biggest freeloader on GFY....
Why do you think the Government should do everything for you? Ever heard of working for your own living?
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Hey dingbat - I do work for a living, and I PAY TAXES! And I'd like them spent on something more than
fucking bombs! I'd like them spent on something that benefits ALL OF US (including you)! You are a bitch-ass slave to the corporate powers that be. They make you feel GOOD about paying their exorbitant rates.
And freeloaders? What the fuck do you call THIS:
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When the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform set off the worst oil spill at sea in American history, it was flying the flag of the Marshall Islands. Registering there allowed the rig?s owner to significantly reduce its American taxes.
The owner, Transocean, moved its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Cayman Islands in 1999 and then to Switzerland in 2008, maneuvers that also helped it avoid taxes.
At the same time, BP was reaping sizable tax benefits from leasing the rig. According to a letter sent in June to the Senate Finance Committee, the company used a tax break for the oil industry to write off 70 percent of the rent for Deepwater Horizon ? a deduction of more than $225,000 a day since the lease began.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/bu...anted=all&_r=0
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The top tax bracket for U.S. corporations stands at 35 percent, one of the highest rates in the world. So how is it possible that a giant of American business, General Electric, paid nothing in federal taxes last year, even as it made billions in profit?
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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gener...ry?id=13224558
Why is it when government policies benefit the rich, and huge billion-dollar corporations, people shrug and accept it? But suggest we actually pool
our tax dollars together, to build an infrastructure that could actually help EVERYONE - the working class in particular (who also pay taxes - a LOT more, percentage-wise, than many rich people and many billion-dollar corporations) and it's called FREELOADING!
Well trained you are.
