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Seniors and Vets to Crash ‘Fix the Debt’ Party Hosted by Honeywell CEO
http://www.thenation.com/blog/172819/seniors-and-vets-crash-fix-debt-party-hosted-honeywell-ceo
Seniors and disabled veterans are planning today to crash a "Fix the Debt" party in New Hampshire hosted by Honeywell CEO David Cote. Fix the Debt, an organization comprised of many of the country's richest and most powerful CEOs, pushes the case for cutting Social Security and Medicare as well as lowering the corporate income tax rate.
As such, the organization —and subsequent party— caught the eye of the anti-corporate tax-dodging group US Uncut and new group "Flip the Debt."
"We wouldn't have to make these cuts, and we could invest in putting America back to work, if only [corporations] pay their fair share. So we say, rather than 'fix the debt,' let's 'flip the debt' and put responsibility where it belongs. Hey 1%! Pay your damn taxes," Flip the Debt states on its website.
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for corporations that already enjoy a very low effective income tax rate be the works of a government that promotes the welfare of special monied interests, including large corporations, rather than a government that promotes the general welfare? Hint: by their works they shall be known. 
Start calling their bullshit out for what it really is! 
