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uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 07:43 PM Sep 2012

Boeing is a deadbeat moocher

http://seattletimes.com/html/dannywestneat/2019193629_danny19.html
Not enough people pay income tax? What about Boeing?

So Mitt Romney thinks if you don't pay income taxes, then you're a handout-addicted moocher who can't take responsibility for bettering yourself.

Harsh. That's mean to say such a thing about Boeing.

Wait ... Boeing? That wasn't who Romney was talking about in his closed-door riff about how the freeloading 47 percent are dragging down this otherwise hardworking, Republican nation.

Yet it remains peskily true that in any accounting of who pays zilch to the federal enterprise, our aerospace superstar is at the top of a long list. In 2011, Boeing had no net income-tax liability for the fourth year in a row, despite $5.1 billion in profits....(more)



Edited to add link to a pdf showing other companies that are moochers. http://www.ctj.org/corporatetaxdodgers/CorporateTaxDodgersReport.pdf
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Boeing is a deadbeat moocher (Original Post) uppityperson Sep 2012 OP
which causes me to wonder KT2000 Sep 2012 #1
But they make fancy weapons of war Cali_Democrat Sep 2012 #2
Many of his best friends are moochers, by his definition nadinbrzezinski Sep 2012 #3

KT2000

(20,563 posts)
1. which causes me to wonder
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 08:08 PM
Sep 2012

if they are also getting tax breaks from the state and if so, are those counted as income to the corporation?

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
3. Many of his best friends are moochers, by his definition
Wed Sep 19, 2012, 08:12 PM
Sep 2012

perhaps even him... yes Mitt, let's talk of your 1040s... shall we?

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