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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 08:11 AM
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US Uncut day of action Saturday.
These cuts will come on top of very painful austerity measures made at the state-level across our nation–-worth hundreds of billions--since the recession began.

In short, budget cuts demonstrate that Washington has abandoned ordinary Americans.

But there is an alternative: Make corporate tax avoiders pay.

Enjoying record profits and taxpayer-funded bailouts as the economy slowly recovers from a financial crisis, nearly two-thirds of US corporations don't pay any income taxes, instead opting to abuse tax loopholes and offshore tax havens. According to this study from the non-partisan Government Accountability Office, 83 of the top 100 publicly traded corporations that operate in the US exploit corporate tax havens. Since 2009, America’s most profitable companies such as ExxonMobil, General Electric, Bank of America and Citigroup all paid a grand total of $0 in federal income taxes to Uncle Sam. Tax havens alone account for up to $1 trillion in tax revenue lost every decade, money that could be invested in K-12 education, colleges, public health, job creation and hundreds of other worthy public programs.

Find an action where you live here:

http://www.usuncut.org/
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 08:34 AM
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1. Naomi Klein explaining how Walker in Wisconsin is putting
Edited on Thu Feb-24-11 08:36 AM by mmonk
the shock doctrine to action and mentions US Uncut.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vt1dygHbOg
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Shallah Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 03:59 PM
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2. K & R
Edited on Thu Feb-24-11 04:00 PM by Shallah Kali
Action page: http://www.usuncut.org/actions

Twitter http://twitter.com/usuncut

also for inspiration here is the Guardian's articles and videos on UK Uncut:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/uk-uncut
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 04:10 PM
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3. Thanks.
It's way to bring attention to those who don't pay taxes while we close libraries, schools, fire public employees. etc.
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mmonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-24-11 04:13 PM
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