If Corporations Don’t Pay Taxes, Why Should You?
Americas multinational corporations still need the Navy to protect shipping lanes and the Commerce Department to safeguard U.S. copyrights. They also expect the Federal Reserve and Treasury Department to intervene to provide bailouts and cheap money when the corporate financial swindlers get into trouble, like GE, which almost went aground when its GE Capital financial wing got caught in the great banking meltdown.
They want a huge U.S. government to finance scientific breakthroughs, educate the future workforce, sustain the infrastructure and provide for law and order on the home front, but they just dont feel they should have to pay for a system of governance, even though it primarily serves their corporate interests. The U.S. government exists primarily to make the world safe for multinational corporations, but those firms feel no obligation to pay for that protection in return.
Think of that perfectly legal and widespread racket when you go to pay your taxes in the next weeks, and consider that you have to make up the gap left by the big boys antics. Also, when you contemplate the painful cuts coming because of the sequester that undoubtedly will further destabilize the economy, remember that, as the Wall Street Journal estimated, the tax savings of just 19 of those companies would more than cover the $85 billion in spending reductions triggered by the congressional budget impasse.
The most skilled at this con game are the health care and technology companies, which, as a Senate investigation last year revealed, have become quite expert at shifting marketing rights and patents offshore to low-tax countries. Microsoft boosted its foreign holdings by $16 billion last year, and by the end of the companys fiscal year on June 30, 2012, had $60.8 billion stashed internationally. Through creative accounting, Microsoft was able to claim that only 7 percent of its pretax profit last year was domestically generated.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/its_good_to_be_the_multinational_corporations_20130312/
postulater
(5,075 posts)"The U.S. government exists primarily to make the world safe for multinational corporations, but those firms feel no obligation to pay for that protection in return."
So what to do about it?
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)practice. I don't know how much she makes but my sister told me that this relative pays half in taxes every year and at the end of this year filing this relative will still have to pay out $30,000. That is alot of money. This relative has a set of twins and is paying their college. One twin graduations this May and the other graduates next year from dental school. Natural she said this relative is upset and I can't blame my relative. This relative works extremely hard. But I told my sister she should be upset at the republicans not at Obama because its the big corporations that aren't paying their share of the taxes and doctors are getting squeezed for sure. I know the doctors have alot to lay out there.
midnight
(26,624 posts)paying close to nothing...