{"id":6623,"date":"2011-07-12T08:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=6623"},"modified":"2011-07-12T08:48:03","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:48:03","slug":"corporate-tax-escapees-and-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/07\/12\/corporate-tax-escapees-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Tax Escapees and You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article <a title=\"Ralph Nader article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2011\/07\/11-14\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Corporate Tax Escapees and You<\/strong><\/a> is from Ralph Nader.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Next time you hear Republicans like Eric Cantor, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell repeat their statement that corporations are overtaxed and need a break, you can tell them that &#8220;had these 12 companies paid the full 35 percent corporate tax, their federal income taxes over the three years would have totaled $59.9 billion.&#8221; CTJ director, Bob McIntyre noted that these 12 companies are &#8220;just the tip of an iceberg of widespread corporate tax avoidance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, most Americans suspect as much, even if they don&#8217;t have the exact figures. A recent Gallup poll asked the public&#8217;s opinion on where they stand on the tax cuts for the rich and the tax breaks for the corporations. By a 45% margin, they opposed tax cuts for the rich and by a 55% margin, they opposed tax cuts for corporations.<\/p>\n<p>So what are Barack Obama and the Democrats waiting for? They have the undeniable facts and overwhelming public sentiment behind them. Why do they let Cantor, Boehner and McConnell continue to mouth falsehoods without rebuttals of the truth?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article Corporate Tax Escapees and You is from Ralph Nader. Next time you hear Republicans like Eric Cantor, John Boehner and Mitch McConnell repeat their statement that corporations are overtaxed and need a break, you can tell them that &#8220;had these 12 companies paid the full 35 percent corporate tax, their federal income taxes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6624,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6623\/revisions\/6624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}