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Originally Posted by Joecooool
The stockholders, who in most cases are the ultra wealthy who then only pay 15% taxes. Think about that. They fire hundreds and in many cases thousands of workers who pay normal tax rates so that they can be more profitable for the handful of investors who then pay 15%. How fcuked up is that?
Many companies pay no taxes, many more pay hardly any taxes. With all the loop holes created by our politicians, U.S. corporations pay some of the lowest actual taxes of any industrialized nation.
And how are you going to get ethical politicians when corporations are bank rolling their campaigns? The only way is through campaign finance laws and the supreme court just shit all over that.
There is a direct indisputable link between the decline of unions in this country and the decline in the middle class. Unions are not without their faults, but without them this country will lose the middle class.
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and that 15% is what percentage of taxes paid as a whole? i know their 1% is a whole hell of a lot more than my 28%. (or whatever the hell i pay. i actually dont even know what i pay, nor do i know how much i make)
I just can't subscribe to a theory that the wealthy are the bad guys. kudos to those making it big. they did their homework and made something of themselves. a whole lot more than i can say for the 47% of the population that we support.
If we are trying to regulate salaries, i'd be much more inclined to go after hollywood and professional sports before corporate america.