you know what BIG fucking surprise - is there something new about this? I don't give a fuck. What I care about is the devaluation of the american dollar, job loss, current unemployment rate, gas prices and the fact that food prices have increased by 400%. At the store yesterday a pack of 3 bell peppers cost 5 FUCKING DOLLARS. Are you kidding me? I can't even afford a fucking bell pepper, I can't afford meat, Obama is destroying our present AND our future. Fucking war mongering piece of SHIT
Hahaha...loved how the Congressman is smiling like...."Muthafhuckah...yeah I know its true, but you KNOW I cant talk about this shit...asshole, go on ya crazy .." lol
the way these congressmen just completely avoid the topic of corporations not paying anything makes me fucking sick... this country is no longer a democracy.
let me see....... corporations who don't have to pay taxes( and outsource cheap labour to other countries) will create jobs in the US. where's the incentive for them to support their own "home" country's economy?????
I find it ridiculous that Republicans and the corporate dipshits want us to believe corporations are actual people now and are entitled to unlimited campaign donations. Ok fine those are the rules (although your wrote them). But if Corporations are now people THEY HAVE TO PAY THEIR TAXES LIKE THE PEOPLE DO! Im starting the see a double standard here.
Is it just me or does that first senator being interviewed looked like some corporate thugs beat the crap out of him and reconfigured his face so that he would be pro corporation?
@avatarmn Cool non sequitur+personal attack bro. Provide a definition of theft which does not include taxation. If I robbed you at gunpoint and then used some of the money to pave your driveway would that justify the theft? You must be a "retard" if you think this is theft.
Roads can and have been provided by voluntary means plenty of times throughout economic history. Some private roads exist today even despite crowding out effects, which is a term you might want to google.
@dangerouslytalented That isn't a definition of theft (or if it is one, its an extremely poor one which excludes mugging for example). And in case you missed it... I pay for "our" roads. Because if I dont men with guns will come to my house and force me to.
If (without your asking) I paved your driveway and then demanded that you pay me a fee which I determined, would it be stealing from me for you to use the driveway without paying my fee? According to your last comment- yes.
well if coorporations want to be allowed have the same rights as a person when it comes to funding political campaigns, then shouldn't they also be treated that way for tax purposes?????? funny how they always get to pick and choose..... I wouldn't mind NOT being able to pay politicians if I don't have to pay tax ... I wonder if that would fly!!!
Globally the ability to shift profits offshore is possible. So its no just the US.
Now countries compete highly aggressively to attract and retain large corporations to operate in their country in order to create job (and hopefully tax).
Now the countries wont close the loophole because of the basel 2 treaties.
This guy doesn't seem evil, just misinformed and unwilling to learn, you could get the same interview from a random uniformed guy on the street. Shame.
I google had a choice of recording their taxes in Aruba at 0% or paying 3% in the US, they will choose the first option. The rate of US taxes is completely irrelevant to that choice. Unless of course you think anything higher than 0% corporate taxes is too high.
@17R3W Thatis a great point. Too bad they are lay in the same bed of corruption and greed. There is little difference between the two parties at this point.
Republicans are smart. They know how to keep the poor and average-salaried motherfuckers of this country at odds with one another long enough to steal votes and tax money galore. Meanwhile you dipshits are voting for DWTS and worrying about Charlie Sheen's antics, fighting over gay marriage and a bunch of other shit that doesn't have shit to do with shit. Americans = THE MOST EASILY DISTRACTED individuals on Earth. Should be jealous of squirrels the way they get sidetracked so often.
Thing is corporate taxes ARE too high. Too bad none of they pay any tax because of the loopholes. If a bill that ended the loophole but reduces the taxes to even 20% was drafted their corporate overlords would get them on the phone immediately and you can only guess what will happen...
Corporations aren't hiring because that would eat into their profit margins which would then, in turn, hurt the value of the company's stock and then hurt the pockets of the executives. It has next to nothing to do with taxes - despite what they're saying.
@goru426 That's funny, because from where I stand Obama sucks corporate dick harder than any republican I ever saw. WHO funded more bailout for GM? WHOSE healthcare plan includes FORCING all americans to PAY for insurance or be fined $1,500 a year. His cronies said that a family of four living on $27K a year should EASILY be able to afford $250 a month for health insurance. What planet is he living on? I went to the store yesterday & 3 bell peppers cost 5 FUCKING dollars.
I honestly think these officials are just this out of touch. There friends are corporate, there workplace associates are corporate, they are surrounded by corporations and know nothing of the common man. We're screwed until this gets much worse. Let's face the fact, it's going to have to get way worse before it gets better. There are too many dumb people watching Fox news who are completely unaware of the siphoning off of the middle class.
This is why I don't vote republican for an office in the top bracket only as a judge because they can't make the laws they have to obey them.. However, I always vote green party or democrat.
@avatarmn Pfft I couldn't care if he had a dick growing out of his forehead, he's the kind of cunt that steals from the poor to give to the rich, and he deserves far more than being ridiculed.
If it were up to me a few swift executions would be in order.
It is 0 (zero) percent. 0 dollars. 0 cents. (zero).
No income should be taxed ever by any government. That's why I will always keep voting to lower income taxes, regardless of any objections, of anything. That's why in Lucerne there eventually be 0 income tax. 0%. 0 dollars.
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Gov't gets paid only through consumption, that's the only way, as gov't IS consumption and it must be cut when all other consumption is cut.
The trouble with that, is that the poor get taxed at a much higher rate then rich. If a poor person spends 100% of their income just to put food on the table they pay tax on 100%.
If a middleclass person spends 95% then they are taxed on 95%.
If a rich person spends only 20% of their income, they are taxed on only 20%.
@17R3W First of all I do NOT see the problem with this.
Secondly, when USA had excise/alcohol/import taxes to pay for the federal gov't, you had a choice NOT to buy things that had those taxes on them.
Lastly, it's a very easy fix. It's called a REFUND. If you do not care about your privacy and liberty but instead you care more about getting your taxes back, prove that you are low paid and get a refund from the government.
@17R3W I don't know why groceries and clothes shouldn't be taxed, not everybody is destitute and it makes no sense to completely free most people from all taxes that pay for gov't spending, after all, there is some military and justice that's supposed to be paid for, whether you are rich, poor or middle, no?
However the poor can have a refund or even a credit from gov't for their taxes. This is really a red herring, it's not an issue. The real issue is gov't wants to control everything.
@romanmir01 - If you're a rich landholder, you will charge your rent according to the level of income of the people you want to live on your land. If you want rich people, you charge bunches of money. If you want poor, you charge a little bit.
This is the idea behind poor people paying little to no taxes making the rich pay through the nose.
It's not rocket science.
You support landlords doing this, but not governments. Landlords are governments, idiot!
@17R3W thats true leaglize mariguna and tax the sellers 90% legalize all drugs and tax the shit out of them leaglize porsitution and tax em 90% leaglize booze and tobacco 90% increase taxes on billion dolalr corps by 5% increase taxes on millionaries by 10% free health care but not free for those that smoke or drink u gotta oush to be this strick
The trouble with that, is that the poor get taxed at a much higher rate then rich. If a poor person spends 100% of their income just to put food on the table they pay tax on 100%.
If a middleclass person spends 95% then they are taxed on 95%.
If a rich person spends only 20% of their income, they are taxed on only 20%
I'm a 'non of the above' person, but these damn Republicans piss me off time and time again. They want to cut spending on education and call you 'anti-education' if you are against them. Corporations are paying in nothing and getting all these breaks and when you're against that they say how you are trying to "loot" the rich 'victims of the liberals'... Fuck these people are hypocrite lying bastards...
i dont know if ppl know, but most of these companies had giant losses during the economic crisis and those companies can reduce the taxes they pay by carrying those losses forward up to seven years. GE probably wont pay taxes for another year or so because they made huge losses that they will carry forward and reduce their taxes payable
Trent Franksless and Jeff Flakey are BOTH Sarah Palin's DICKLESS and BALLESS BITCHES and PUSSIES! Palin is a VASTLY SUPERIOR politician and statesman than these two ass-clowns could ever be. Palin is much smarter than they are and is nowhere near as naive and gullible as they are. Frankless and Flakey are both weak for falling for these libturds and let the cat out of the bag. Sarah Palin is a lot more cunning and never reveal her plans to anybody for their scrutiny.
BTW, the only employee by Exxon gets paid only 44.000 euros per year before taxes.... cut coorporate taxes => no jobs, no tax, all benefits, and end of story.
Spain Based, for tax benefits (0% local tax), that helps them pay instead of USA 31,8% tax rate, only a 16,6% tax over benefits (to you, not us), for 5.000 million Euros per year benefits declared in Spain.
As per republican criteria, this should help us get jobs: ("cut taxes and corporations will use money to create jobs"...)
Number of employees in Spain by Exxon: ONE. O.o!!!!
Google, pays only 2'4% Tax
Hewlett Packard, American Express, GM do as so too
Why do you people keep electing these people!?!?! This guy either knows nothing or is getting paid to talk nonsense. Pay attention to your elected officials. Watch what they do and say. A measure of how well they are doing their job is your cost of living. Stop electing people who make a mockery of your support or apathy.
I don't know a whole lot about economics, but if corporations leave because the American corporate taxes are too high wouldn't that leave a huge hole in the market for other corporations to fill. It's not like if you raisr taxes there will just be no corporations left
@VirtualBilly Flat tax only works great when wealth distribution is flat, for example if there are about as many people making $25 k a year as there are making $5 million a year.
@ccricers flat taxes offer simplicity in the tax code, which has been proven to increase compliance and decrease administration costs. look for the economist's article called "The flat-tax revolution", dated April 14, 2005.
@VirtualBilly ok, spell it out then. flat tax as in everyone pays in the same total amount? that amount would be more than many poor ppl make total so thats out the window... flat tax RATE instead? so raise taxes on poor and middle class while lowering it for the upper class compared to our current tax rates. even the 1 that makes sense is a fail and does exactly what i said. way to stick to your stupid.
@largegrainsofsalt verbatim ignorant quote from you: "duh, i not unnastan... flat tax as in everyone pays in the same total amount?" ...no jackass, nobody has EVER thought that was the definition of a flat tax. EVER. i strongly suggest you at least read "economics for dummies" so you can understand the damn terminology. fucking seriously.
@VirtualBilly so flat tax RATE. ok now that you've bothered to define your terms, how would that not do exactly what i said at first? that rate would be higher for the middle and lower class than the current rates, and lower for the upper class. ever thought of making an argument instead of trying to start an argument?
@largegrainsofsalt again, "economics for dummies". you're still not understanding the terminology. i won't argue with you if you're going to continue formulating your opinions based on your own misunderstanding of the fundamentals. open your mind and then we'll talk.
@VirtualBilly you've yet to make a point. you've yet to explain on any level how i'm wrong. all you've done is make snide remarks and ad hominem attacks followed by a declaration of victory. you can now kindly return to the underside of your bridge and fuck off.
@largegrainsofsalt again, seriously... you need to understand the basic terminology first. you can't expect to win an argument if you don't understand what you're arguing for. make sense? no? well that's because your parents failed you. haha, lol... anyway, flat tax.
@VirtualBilly wait i think i got it. let me try making an argument like you...
dick sauce.
2 words, i'm the only 1 who knows what they mean and i refuse to explain them in any way to anyone no matter how much they press the issue. everyone is stupid and i'm the best. get it? fuck you.
@largegrainsofsalt "refuse to explain"?? first of all, jackass, i never "refused" because you never asked. second, wow... a woman who obviously has internet access is seriously expecting a total internet stranger to do the research for her. ho... lee... fuck. no wonder you hate the idea of a flat tax so much... with the way things are now, you can just keep expecting someone else to solve your financial problems for you rather than earning your own damn paycheck. haha, lol... what a stereotype.
@VirtualBilly the only thing you've actually said in favor of a flat tax you copy/pasted direct from wikipedia. literally everything else has been troll talk, so pardon me for questioning your knowledge of this area. i have a degree, an ACT score of 30 and i own my own business. so if you actually cared to make a point, i'm pretty sure i'd be able to follow just fine. yet you make no point and call everyone else stupid for not seeing your brilliance.
@largegrainsofsalt "i have a degree, an ACT score of 30 and i own my own business." ...saying that shows you've got something to prove.
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here's something you'll understand, then disagree with anyway to save face: the median taxpayer has a combined marginal tax rate of 31.6%. if everyone in 2009 paid a meager 15 cents for each dollar they earned, the IRS would have collected over $30billion more than today's national deficit.
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flat tax. now avoid doing your own research for fear that i'm right.
@VirtualBilly finally, a fucking point. so the problem is that the rich people and corporations simply dont pay taxes. this shifts the burden onto the lower and middle class. LITERALLY ANY tax code would be an improvement as long as the rich and corporations have to start paying their taxes. getting the high end to pay taxes is the problem, NOT finding some magical flat rate that fixes everything. theres a difference between correlation and causation, look it up.
@largegrainsofsalt "so the problem is that the rich people and corporations simply dont pay taxes." ...and you're back to not knowing what you're talking about. look, i get that cenk made that vague statement first, and that he's the reason you think something so stupid, but seriously, you REALLY NEED TO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. until you can understand that plain-english statement and start opening your mind, i'm done explaining things FOR you. you're a big girl; look it up for yourself. flat tax.
@Capng123 oh, well shit... in that case, ever since you gave me that insightful input, i've decided to change my mind and be ignorant enough to believe that the successful should be punished for their hard work and made to carry the financial burden of the nation's lazy, stupid, drug addicted, slutty, convicted, etc., etc. how's that old saying go? oh yeah... "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need". that about sum it up?
@VirtualBilly No amount of sarcasm will make what I said untrue. It is charmingly naiive how you've actually bought that rags-to-riches bullshit you've spoonfed by the right-wing. Charming, but sad.
Rewarding people who DON'T DO ANY FUCKING WORK and are ALREADY RICH is a sure plan for economic disaster.
But hey I guess if you prefer oligarchy to democracy that's your business. I hope you have plenty of cake, they'll be telling you to eat it soon...
@Capng123 so you've been told to believe that a flat tax system doesn't simplify the tax code, or increase compliance, or decrease administration costs, or reduce corporate welfare, or enable household tax returns to fit on a postcard, or allow no special treatment of industry, or tolerate no advantage to large households at the expense of smaller ones, or reduce the cost of filing yearly tax returns, or provide that only businesses would need to directly interact with tax authorities. right?
@VirtualBilly wait a second. a flat tax troll, with a huge ego, no real point to get across and nothing better to do than troll youtube comments... your steve fucking forbes aren't you?
America DOES have really high corporate tax rates, a lot higher than here in Canada. The fact that some really huge corporations find loopholes and pay NOTHING, isn't a reason to keep your overall corporate tax rates so high. Fix the loop holes, so the big boys have to pay their fair share of taxes, AND lower the corporate tax rates as well, Problem solved.
"i'd have to look at your figures" WTF? figures? 0, zero, zilch, nada, nothing, dick, jack diddly squat, doughnuts, the big "O". what is there to look at?
"Probably the economy that made them pay zero"... He could not be more right, but he could not understand what he is saying. Cost benefice annalists: making 2 billions, spending 1, 35% go in tax mean 350 millions not in their pocket and 0.65 billions in profit. Now, making 2.2 billion, spending 0.9 and paying 0 taxes mean 1.3 billions in their pocket. Yes it is the economy, but not the recession part of it, it's the mathematical part of it!
@coffeeCollie You would have to steal their merchandise from their store shelves, which is really your merchandise you paid for, because they ALREADY HAVE your money.
Steal it back. You bought that shit, go get yourself a new TV and dishwasher.
This kind of stuff makes me want to go into Citi group world HQ and demand the billions of dollars they owe the U.S. people. I won't mess with google though, google'll fuck you up.
Okay. Some really simple logic here. Just putting it out there: A business is an entity that offers a good or service in exchange for (money). They make a profit, money over what they spend to be a business. You do not -give- any business any money, you buy their services. Now, a charity is an entity that is -given- money in exchange for goods or services. So why are we given these businesses charity money? No wonder so many charities are being shut down. Our businesses have turned into siphons.
Businesses only pay taxes on their profits, yet they contribute approximately 1/3 as much as income taxes. If you do the math + economics, GDP=GNI, that small businesses = large businesses in sum total, this would mean that the average businesses would have to be making absurd profits.
Business taxes should be and are an important part of the tax system, right now, they are about 1/3 as important as income taxes.
If corporations aren't paying any taxes, the first thing to do would be to get them to start paying for current taxes, not raise the taxes they wont pay. It might even help if we lowered taxes as incentive for them to pay.
@nevermind0143 Are we supposed to lower them to nothing? If they aren't paying anything now, how would making their taxes less create any kind of an incentive?
Reducing corporate and/or personal taxes is not going to revive the lifeless corpse that used to be America's manufacturing base - that is going to take a bi-partisan strategy and a commitment by both sides of politics and the corporations still loyal to the US to work together toward a common goal and for the common good. Thats how you got on top of the Great Depression at the end of the '30s.- Can you do it again? I'm betting against it.....
@crocfme I don't think manufacturing will be back until maybe 30-40 years. What would it take to bring jobs back? High taxes on companies that move over seas or large tax breaks for those that can but are thinking about it, collapse of foreign markets or similar instability, or simply cheaper labor in the US. Repubs won't budge on any tax increase. They would vote for tax breaks but never suggest it for some reason.
Mostly, the very rich got that way thru exploiting the masses; it is a natural extension of that ideoligy that they would also desire to exploit the masses in avoiding their tax responsibilities. It is the job of govt to prevent this and enforce fairness in the taxation system. But as ever more expensive political campaigns are being funded by those wishing to avoid paying their fair share....How can any fairness be expected from govt?
That is why I am pessimistic about America's recovery. I agree with you that it will take 30-40 years (Probably longer if the electoral/political system is not reformed.)
bring the damn tax rates back to 30% WHERE IT SHOULD BE!!!! and if they find loopholes, fine them 10 million dollars, which is less than the 1% of B of A's tax CREDIT.
i want to know what is stopping obama from creating an executive order shutting down the tax haven loop hole? just flat out shut down any corporation that operates in the US but have a corp HQ that is a cubicle on some island offshore some where.
Watching this video I kept getting the impression that I was watching a wild animal being backed into the corner as the UNCUT journalist came at it with one fact after another. The politicians even kinda looked like dirty little rats with their beady eyes and odor of a rotting sewer.
Also, I LOVE that "I'd have to look at your figures" line... Ok, here are my figures *takes paper, draws a big zero on it*
How is that hard to understand? They dodge out of paying any taxes at all, the GOPers don't have an answer, they'll never get called out on it in the mainstream, and we'll continue our descent into reverse-Fascist economics, where business runs the country and the law makes the things that business wan to happen happen.
"Look, job creators need to be able to create jobs, so if you're not creating jobs and making less money in this country, the burden is on you. If you're not creating jobs, you can't pass the cost of doing business onto anyone else, so it's on you."
We need to tell these Republicans to SHUT. THE FUCK. UP. with this kind of argument - that they'll just pass the cost on to you. They need to start budgeting for the cost of taxes. This is anti-Smith Capitalism.
Rather than get upset that some other entity is not paying more taxes, why not revolt because you still are?
VINNYMOR 5 months ago
you know what BIG fucking surprise - is there something new about this? I don't give a fuck. What I care about is the devaluation of the american dollar, job loss, current unemployment rate, gas prices and the fact that food prices have increased by 400%. At the store yesterday a pack of 3 bell peppers cost 5 FUCKING DOLLARS. Are you kidding me? I can't even afford a fucking bell pepper, I can't afford meat, Obama is destroying our present AND our future. Fucking war mongering piece of SHIT
PaleBunnyInfidel 7 months ago
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DelilahZoe 8 months ago
Hahaha...loved how the Congressman is smiling like...."Muthafhuckah...yeah I know its true, but you KNOW I cant talk about this shit...asshole, go on ya crazy .." lol
anaihilator 10 months ago
Stick to your talking points much? Paid actors.
MyTemporaryAccount88 1 year ago
the way these congressmen just completely avoid the topic of corporations not paying anything makes me fucking sick... this country is no longer a democracy.
theworm1244 1 year ago
let me see....... corporations who don't have to pay taxes( and outsource cheap labour to other countries) will create jobs in the US. where's the incentive for them to support their own "home" country's economy?????
regtracker 1 year ago
I find it ridiculous that Republicans and the corporate dipshits want us to believe corporations are actual people now and are entitled to unlimited campaign donations. Ok fine those are the rules (although your wrote them). But if Corporations are now people THEY HAVE TO PAY THEIR TAXES LIKE THE PEOPLE DO! Im starting the see a double standard here.
timh1982 1 year ago 4
Is it just me or does that first senator being interviewed looked like some corporate thugs beat the crap out of him and reconfigured his face so that he would be pro corporation?
Oh, hey, how about putting this up on MSNBC?
DrQuijano 1 year ago
Tax is theft
nightpotato 1 year ago
@nightpotato What a retard. Who do you think lays the roads. The asphalt fairy?
avatarmn 1 year ago
@avatarmn Cool non sequitur+personal attack bro. Provide a definition of theft which does not include taxation. If I robbed you at gunpoint and then used some of the money to pave your driveway would that justify the theft? You must be a "retard" if you think this is theft.
Roads can and have been provided by voluntary means plenty of times throughout economic history. Some private roads exist today even despite crowding out effects, which is a term you might want to google.
nightpotato 1 year ago
@nightpotato Using any government service without paying taxes is theft. Get the Fuck off our roads.
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago
@dangerouslytalented That isn't a definition of theft (or if it is one, its an extremely poor one which excludes mugging for example). And in case you missed it... I pay for "our" roads. Because if I dont men with guns will come to my house and force me to.
If (without your asking) I paved your driveway and then demanded that you pay me a fee which I determined, would it be stealing from me for you to use the driveway without paying my fee? According to your last comment- yes.
nightpotato 1 year ago
well if coorporations want to be allowed have the same rights as a person when it comes to funding political campaigns, then shouldn't they also be treated that way for tax purposes?????? funny how they always get to pick and choose..... I wouldn't mind NOT being able to pay politicians if I don't have to pay tax ... I wonder if that would fly!!!
CigarStudLasVegas 1 year ago
I say, cut credits to companies not paying anything....
SiriusMined 1 year ago
3 People don't pay taxes and are scumbags..
papasparks2009 1 year ago
three people dont like paying taxes
papasparks2009 1 year ago
Buy local..shop mom and pop use community banks. Quit playing their game and starve the beast.
sixin1 1 year ago
No socialism except--for the super rich and big corporations
lordcheetah 1 year ago
Cenk,
There is a issue you may be missing.
Globally the ability to shift profits offshore is possible. So its no just the US.
Now countries compete highly aggressively to attract and retain large corporations to operate in their country in order to create job (and hopefully tax).
Now the countries wont close the loophole because of the basel 2 treaties.
gedw99 1 year ago
This video is extremely important. I suggest everyone pass it around.
Bobbiethejean 1 year ago
The corporations find loopholes out of paying taxes, while Republicans find loopholes out of arguing their points.
Relyt22 1 year ago
Not all corporations make what BofA and GE make. Many corporations do pay the corporate tax rate.
roseagain2 1 year ago
This guy doesn't seem evil, just misinformed and unwilling to learn, you could get the same interview from a random uniformed guy on the street. Shame.
DeJach 1 year ago
All I heard out of those congressmen mouth is "blah blah blah money for me blah blahblah no money for you."
VaGurl88 1 year ago
Corporations should never pay taxes. It's just socialist redistribution of wealth.
HomleandSecurity 1 year ago
my Daddy always told me, never trust a man with no upper lip....it makes it to easy for lies to flow from his mouth :-/
TheSilverGypsy 1 year ago
I google had a choice of recording their taxes in Aruba at 0% or paying 3% in the US, they will choose the first option. The rate of US taxes is completely irrelevant to that choice. Unless of course you think anything higher than 0% corporate taxes is too high.
Robfenix 1 year ago
Wake up America. This isn't capitalism, it's corporatism.
CHAOSoriginal 1 year ago 30
Fucked up lip ass muthafucka!
datniggami7 1 year ago
@datniggami7 That was uncalled for...
Arora13 1 year ago
@Arora13 Beat it!!!
datniggami7 1 year ago
@datniggami7 No?
Arora13 1 year ago
@datniggami7 It is not his lip that is problem its his brain!
jesushatesyoutoo 1 year ago
@jesushatesyoutoo True that!!!!
datniggami7 1 year ago
3:19 "How can 0% be to high?"
Because the Republicans are socialist. They want to steel from the poor and give to the rich.
By the way, if the DNC had any balls what so ever they'd spin this into a 30 second commercial.
17R3W 1 year ago 4
@17R3W Thatis a great point. Too bad they are lay in the same bed of corruption and greed. There is little difference between the two parties at this point.
nett103 1 year ago 2
@nett103
Good point.
17R3W 1 year ago
If Republicans had their way, we would pay the corporations tax...
TheHammerOfJustice1 1 year ago 2
Republicans are smart. They know how to keep the poor and average-salaried motherfuckers of this country at odds with one another long enough to steal votes and tax money galore. Meanwhile you dipshits are voting for DWTS and worrying about Charlie Sheen's antics, fighting over gay marriage and a bunch of other shit that doesn't have shit to do with shit. Americans = THE MOST EASILY DISTRACTED individuals on Earth. Should be jealous of squirrels the way they get sidetracked so often.
Jay20782 1 year ago
3:50 GOAT BOY!
and fuck the corporations....
theogore 1 year ago
so glad i live in australia
alexlati1 1 year ago
great place america where as long as you have the right ammount if money you do not have to follow the laes
jonmel 1 year ago
Que hijo de puta!
fishbonebuba 1 year ago
Republicans are fucking morons . . . and yes, many Democrats, too, but repubs are beyond the pale.
saumacus 1 year ago
wow these guys have no soul.
hakkai999 1 year ago
@hakkai999 I thought that only gingers have souls!
hedleypanama 1 year ago
Thing is corporate taxes ARE too high. Too bad none of they pay any tax because of the loopholes. If a bill that ended the loophole but reduces the taxes to even 20% was drafted their corporate overlords would get them on the phone immediately and you can only guess what will happen...
ipxzor 1 year ago
Corporations aren't hiring because that would eat into their profit margins which would then, in turn, hurt the value of the company's stock and then hurt the pockets of the executives. It has next to nothing to do with taxes - despite what they're saying.
DisturbedHavok 1 year ago 2
Corporations not paying taxes? Of courseeeee!
Mecha82 1 year ago
"That's a bad thing" "So you agree with LIIIIIIIIBERALLLLLLS?" "NO!"
JoeDull 1 year ago 2
@JoeDull
I know, eh?
Why not just say "I agree with them on at least one issue". Would that really kill you say, the opposition has a point on one issue?
17R3W 1 year ago
FUCK the GOP! I hate to say it but I just can't stand all those corporate puppets!
goru426 1 year ago 48
@goru426
Democrats aren't any better.
EMPIREofPUPPETS 1 year ago
@goru426
It's not just the GOP that are corporate puppets...
kikila007 1 year ago
@goru426 I hate even more the corporate puppets masquerading as Democrats!
tcdowning666 1 year ago
@goru426 That's funny, because from where I stand Obama sucks corporate dick harder than any republican I ever saw. WHO funded more bailout for GM? WHOSE healthcare plan includes FORCING all americans to PAY for insurance or be fined $1,500 a year. His cronies said that a family of four living on $27K a year should EASILY be able to afford $250 a month for health insurance. What planet is he living on? I went to the store yesterday & 3 bell peppers cost 5 FUCKING dollars.
PaleBunnyInfidel 7 months ago
I honestly think these officials are just this out of touch. There friends are corporate, there workplace associates are corporate, they are surrounded by corporations and know nothing of the common man. We're screwed until this gets much worse. Let's face the fact, it's going to have to get way worse before it gets better. There are too many dumb people watching Fox news who are completely unaware of the siphoning off of the middle class.
MyLittleBomb 1 year ago
This is why I don't vote republican for an office in the top bracket only as a judge because they can't make the laws they have to obey them.. However, I always vote green party or democrat.
sarajohnson6 1 year ago
Wtf?! What was up with that guys face. I can't decide whether I should be afraid or amused. 0_o
Raelsatu 1 year ago
@Raelsatu Be ashamed. It's a birth deformity called a cleft lip, you fucking monster.
avatarmn 1 year ago
@avatarmn Pfft I couldn't care if he had a dick growing out of his forehead, he's the kind of cunt that steals from the poor to give to the rich, and he deserves far more than being ridiculed.
If it were up to me a few swift executions would be in order.
The1stPoster 1 year ago
@Raelsatu
OMG, what's wrong with your face?
17R3W 1 year ago
@MarioSMB3 Well, it is the same god...
There are very few openly godless lawmakers in the US...
dangerouslytalented 1 year ago
They just don't give a shit.
MobRulesNow 1 year ago
We have a huge deficit, so I see no other option then to cut revenue in corpate taxxes. Genious.
TheBeauYo 1 year ago
There is only 1 (one) fair income tax level.
It is 0 (zero) percent. 0 dollars. 0 cents. (zero).
No income should be taxed ever by any government. That's why I will always keep voting to lower income taxes, regardless of any objections, of anything. That's why in Lucerne there eventually be 0 income tax. 0%. 0 dollars.
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Gov't gets paid only through consumption, that's the only way, as gov't IS consumption and it must be cut when all other consumption is cut.
romanmir01 1 year ago
@romanmir01
The trouble with that, is that the poor get taxed at a much higher rate then rich. If a poor person spends 100% of their income just to put food on the table they pay tax on 100%.
If a middleclass person spends 95% then they are taxed on 95%.
If a rich person spends only 20% of their income, they are taxed on only 20%.
17R3W 1 year ago 3
@17R3W First of all I do NOT see the problem with this.
Secondly, when USA had excise/alcohol/import taxes to pay for the federal gov't, you had a choice NOT to buy things that had those taxes on them.
Lastly, it's a very easy fix. It's called a REFUND. If you do not care about your privacy and liberty but instead you care more about getting your taxes back, prove that you are low paid and get a refund from the government.
The poor do not really have to pay any taxes.
romanmir01 1 year ago
@romanmir01
Refund is a very good idea. I'm in favor of the Sin Tax, where alcohol / Tobacco are taxed higher then other things.
I could see something like NO TAX on groceries, clothes, hydro/water, and tax the hell out of everything else.
But then you get people like Boehner saying it's a tax on orange people or some such thing.
17R3W 1 year ago
@17R3W I don't know why groceries and clothes shouldn't be taxed, not everybody is destitute and it makes no sense to completely free most people from all taxes that pay for gov't spending, after all, there is some military and justice that's supposed to be paid for, whether you are rich, poor or middle, no?
However the poor can have a refund or even a credit from gov't for their taxes. This is really a red herring, it's not an issue. The real issue is gov't wants to control everything.
romanmir01 1 year ago
@romanmir01 - If you're a rich landholder, you will charge your rent according to the level of income of the people you want to live on your land. If you want rich people, you charge bunches of money. If you want poor, you charge a little bit.
This is the idea behind poor people paying little to no taxes making the rich pay through the nose.
It's not rocket science.
You support landlords doing this, but not governments. Landlords are governments, idiot!
LeksServices 1 year ago
@17R3W thats true leaglize mariguna and tax the sellers 90% legalize all drugs and tax the shit out of them leaglize porsitution and tax em 90% leaglize booze and tobacco 90% increase taxes on billion dolalr corps by 5% increase taxes on millionaries by 10% free health care but not free for those that smoke or drink u gotta oush to be this strick
dojOdRiFTeR 1 year ago
@dojOdRiFTeR
100% agree. Also, if we stopped spending billions are law enforcement for pot, we could have the police enforce a few other laws.
17R3W 1 year ago
Fair tax. Retial sales tax INSTEAD of the income tax. Who's with me?
PersonalJesus348 1 year ago
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@PersonalJesus348
The trouble with that, is that the poor get taxed at a much higher rate then rich. If a poor person spends 100% of their income just to put food on the table they pay tax on 100%.
If a middleclass person spends 95% then they are taxed on 95%.
If a rich person spends only 20% of their income, they are taxed on only 20%
17R3W 1 year ago
I'm a 'non of the above' person, but these damn Republicans piss me off time and time again. They want to cut spending on education and call you 'anti-education' if you are against them. Corporations are paying in nothing and getting all these breaks and when you're against that they say how you are trying to "loot" the rich 'victims of the liberals'... Fuck these people are hypocrite lying bastards...
ChameleonLost88 1 year ago
@ChameleonLost88 A...fucking...men.
gamingsoul11 1 year ago
It's Soooooo obvious that they're on the Payroll.
RBLA818 1 year ago
@RBLA818
It is so good to know that the attorney general appointed by obama is going after these crooks. Oh, wait a minute, he's in on it too!
babyjustwin1 1 year ago
would I? harelip!
metaguru 1 year ago
i dont know if ppl know, but most of these companies had giant losses during the economic crisis and those companies can reduce the taxes they pay by carrying those losses forward up to seven years. GE probably wont pay taxes for another year or so because they made huge losses that they will carry forward and reduce their taxes payable
bigbrown1234567 1 year ago
Tax the rich. Tax the rich. Just tax the fucking rich.
criskity 1 year ago 33
@criskity
They will just get a waiver.
babyjustwin1 1 year ago
Trent Franksless and Jeff Flakey are BOTH Sarah Palin's DICKLESS and BALLESS BITCHES and PUSSIES! Palin is a VASTLY SUPERIOR politician and statesman than these two ass-clowns could ever be. Palin is much smarter than they are and is nowhere near as naive and gullible as they are. Frankless and Flakey are both weak for falling for these libturds and let the cat out of the bag. Sarah Palin is a lot more cunning and never reveal her plans to anybody for their scrutiny.
ecwaufisxtreme 1 year ago
Is it just me or does the first congressman look like a pink pig?
mousethelion 1 year ago
they should make a three stooges video mocking these mathematically challenged republican!!! you can't reduce 0%!!!
nicksoKKerstar2 1 year ago
@nicksoKKerstar2 More like Abbot & Costello...
"So we wanna reduce corporate taxes, right?" "Right."
"So how much do they pay now?" "0%"
"ZERO?" "Sometimes they pay LESS." "LESS than ZERO? How can they do that?"
"Simple,... they get credits!"
(Imagine the rest)
cosmo706 1 year ago 2
@cosmo706 its as if you read my mind!!!! thats exactly what i was picturing!
nicksoKKerstar2 1 year ago
BTW, the only employee by Exxon gets paid only 44.000 euros per year before taxes.... cut coorporate taxes => no jobs, no tax, all benefits, and end of story.
fitobcnfito 1 year ago
ExxonMobile International (PETROL)
Spain Based, for tax benefits (0% local tax), that helps them pay instead of USA 31,8% tax rate, only a 16,6% tax over benefits (to you, not us), for 5.000 million Euros per year benefits declared in Spain.
As per republican criteria, this should help us get jobs: ("cut taxes and corporations will use money to create jobs"...)
Number of employees in Spain by Exxon: ONE. O.o!!!!
Google, pays only 2'4% Tax
Hewlett Packard, American Express, GM do as so too
fitobcnfito 1 year ago
CO ZA ASY
XxChicoR3b3ld3xX 1 year ago 2
Why do you people keep electing these people!?!?! This guy either knows nothing or is getting paid to talk nonsense. Pay attention to your elected officials. Watch what they do and say. A measure of how well they are doing their job is your cost of living. Stop electing people who make a mockery of your support or apathy.
Mazdem 1 year ago
I don't know a whole lot about economics, but if corporations leave because the American corporate taxes are too high wouldn't that leave a huge hole in the market for other corporations to fill. It's not like if you raisr taxes there will just be no corporations left
jared091787 1 year ago
that guys skin is pink
charliwizaa 1 year ago
flat tax.
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly *facepalm* yes, lets shift the tax burden even more onto the middle and lower class. you nailed it.
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
@largegrainsofsalt lol, good one you highly-experienced economic analyst. you seriously got me good that time.
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly Flat tax only works great when wealth distribution is flat, for example if there are about as many people making $25 k a year as there are making $5 million a year.
ccricers 1 year ago
@ccricers flat taxes offer simplicity in the tax code, which has been proven to increase compliance and decrease administration costs. look for the economist's article called "The flat-tax revolution", dated April 14, 2005.
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly ok, spell it out then. flat tax as in everyone pays in the same total amount? that amount would be more than many poor ppl make total so thats out the window... flat tax RATE instead? so raise taxes on poor and middle class while lowering it for the upper class compared to our current tax rates. even the 1 that makes sense is a fail and does exactly what i said. way to stick to your stupid.
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
@largegrainsofsalt verbatim ignorant quote from you: "duh, i not unnastan... flat tax as in everyone pays in the same total amount?" ...no jackass, nobody has EVER thought that was the definition of a flat tax. EVER. i strongly suggest you at least read "economics for dummies" so you can understand the damn terminology. fucking seriously.
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly so flat tax RATE. ok now that you've bothered to define your terms, how would that not do exactly what i said at first? that rate would be higher for the middle and lower class than the current rates, and lower for the upper class. ever thought of making an argument instead of trying to start an argument?
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
@largegrainsofsalt again, "economics for dummies". you're still not understanding the terminology. i won't argue with you if you're going to continue formulating your opinions based on your own misunderstanding of the fundamentals. open your mind and then we'll talk.
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly you've yet to make a point. you've yet to explain on any level how i'm wrong. all you've done is make snide remarks and ad hominem attacks followed by a declaration of victory. you can now kindly return to the underside of your bridge and fuck off.
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
@largegrainsofsalt again, seriously... you need to understand the basic terminology first. you can't expect to win an argument if you don't understand what you're arguing for. make sense? no? well that's because your parents failed you. haha, lol... anyway, flat tax.
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly wait i think i got it. let me try making an argument like you...
dick sauce.
2 words, i'm the only 1 who knows what they mean and i refuse to explain them in any way to anyone no matter how much they press the issue. everyone is stupid and i'm the best. get it? fuck you.
anyway... dick sauce.
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
@largegrainsofsalt "refuse to explain"?? first of all, jackass, i never "refused" because you never asked. second, wow... a woman who obviously has internet access is seriously expecting a total internet stranger to do the research for her. ho... lee... fuck. no wonder you hate the idea of a flat tax so much... with the way things are now, you can just keep expecting someone else to solve your financial problems for you rather than earning your own damn paycheck. haha, lol... what a stereotype.
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly the only thing you've actually said in favor of a flat tax you copy/pasted direct from wikipedia. literally everything else has been troll talk, so pardon me for questioning your knowledge of this area. i have a degree, an ACT score of 30 and i own my own business. so if you actually cared to make a point, i'm pretty sure i'd be able to follow just fine. yet you make no point and call everyone else stupid for not seeing your brilliance.
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
@largegrainsofsalt "i have a degree, an ACT score of 30 and i own my own business." ...saying that shows you've got something to prove.
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here's something you'll understand, then disagree with anyway to save face: the median taxpayer has a combined marginal tax rate of 31.6%. if everyone in 2009 paid a meager 15 cents for each dollar they earned, the IRS would have collected over $30billion more than today's national deficit.
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flat tax. now avoid doing your own research for fear that i'm right.
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly finally, a fucking point. so the problem is that the rich people and corporations simply dont pay taxes. this shifts the burden onto the lower and middle class. LITERALLY ANY tax code would be an improvement as long as the rich and corporations have to start paying their taxes. getting the high end to pay taxes is the problem, NOT finding some magical flat rate that fixes everything. theres a difference between correlation and causation, look it up.
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
@largegrainsofsalt "so the problem is that the rich people and corporations simply dont pay taxes." ...and you're back to not knowing what you're talking about. look, i get that cenk made that vague statement first, and that he's the reason you think something so stupid, but seriously, you REALLY NEED TO DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. until you can understand that plain-english statement and start opening your mind, i'm done explaining things FOR you. you're a big girl; look it up for yourself. flat tax.
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly i'm done explaining to you that being a pompous ass doesn't count as explaining a god damn thing. dick sauce.
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
@largegrainsofsalt i'm done explaining to you that being wrong doesn't count as being right. haha, lol...
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly Flat taxes don't work. Ever.
EVER.
Capng123 1 year ago
@Capng123 oh, well shit... in that case, ever since you gave me that insightful input, i've decided to change my mind and be ignorant enough to believe that the successful should be punished for their hard work and made to carry the financial burden of the nation's lazy, stupid, drug addicted, slutty, convicted, etc., etc. how's that old saying go? oh yeah... "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need". that about sum it up?
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly No amount of sarcasm will make what I said untrue. It is charmingly naiive how you've actually bought that rags-to-riches bullshit you've spoonfed by the right-wing. Charming, but sad.
Rewarding people who DON'T DO ANY FUCKING WORK and are ALREADY RICH is a sure plan for economic disaster.
But hey I guess if you prefer oligarchy to democracy that's your business. I hope you have plenty of cake, they'll be telling you to eat it soon...
Capng123 1 year ago
@Capng123 so you've been told to believe that a flat tax system doesn't simplify the tax code, or increase compliance, or decrease administration costs, or reduce corporate welfare, or enable household tax returns to fit on a postcard, or allow no special treatment of industry, or tolerate no advantage to large households at the expense of smaller ones, or reduce the cost of filing yearly tax returns, or provide that only businesses would need to directly interact with tax authorities. right?
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
@VirtualBilly wait a second. a flat tax troll, with a huge ego, no real point to get across and nothing better to do than troll youtube comments... your steve fucking forbes aren't you?
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
@largegrainsofsalt now now, be fair. you already lost your argument with me. let someone else have a turn. haha, lol...
VirtualBilly 1 year ago
America DOES have really high corporate tax rates, a lot higher than here in Canada. The fact that some really huge corporations find loopholes and pay NOTHING, isn't a reason to keep your overall corporate tax rates so high. Fix the loop holes, so the big boys have to pay their fair share of taxes, AND lower the corporate tax rates as well, Problem solved.
mangaas 1 year ago
"i'd have to look at your figures" WTF? figures? 0, zero, zilch, nada, nothing, dick, jack diddly squat, doughnuts, the big "O". what is there to look at?
largegrainsofsalt 1 year ago
Negative tax rates haha.
Before long the people are gonna have negative salaries.
One actually has to PAY the corporations to get a job.
anadus7 1 year ago
"Probably the economy that made them pay zero"... He could not be more right, but he could not understand what he is saying. Cost benefice annalists: making 2 billions, spending 1, 35% go in tax mean 350 millions not in their pocket and 0.65 billions in profit. Now, making 2.2 billion, spending 0.9 and paying 0 taxes mean 1.3 billions in their pocket. Yes it is the economy, but not the recession part of it, it's the mathematical part of it!
therrydicule 1 year ago
Do these guys not have a fucking soul?
TheAndrewMosley 1 year ago 78
@TheAndrewMosley No
therrydicule 1 year ago
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@TheAndrewMosley "Do these guys not have a fucking soul?"
As long as their stomach are full from their huge annual salaries, ain't much gonna change.
anadus7 1 year ago
@TheAndrewMosley Welcome to earth, you must be new here...
Capng123 1 year ago
@TheAndrewMosley I think they just know fuck all about anything.
niemanickurwa 1 year ago
@TheAndrewMosley They're paid not to.
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yatubehabibi 1 year ago
So the taxes taken out of my paychecks just go straight to corporations that don't pay taxes on their profits at all, through tax credits?
What if I don't want to give them jack shit?
coffeeCollie 1 year ago 60
@coffeeCollie fight back...
WorldDebater 1 year ago
@coffeeCollie You would have to steal their merchandise from their store shelves, which is really your merchandise you paid for, because they ALREADY HAVE your money.
Steal it back. You bought that shit, go get yourself a new TV and dishwasher.
watercup123456 1 year ago
@coffeeCollie THEN CLEARLY YOU'RE A FUCKING MARXIST COMMUNIST MAN.
poorandimmature 1 year ago
@coffeeCollie fortunately thats not how tax credits work. you can use it to lower how much you pay, but it cant be used for a refund
metallicafannick 1 year ago
@metallicafannick There's also subsidies, though. :(
coffeeCollie 1 year ago
@coffeeCollie you go straight to jail can you say Wesley Snipes??
spider879 1 year ago
@coffeeCollie
noone cares about what you want, you arent a corporation.
logoth80 1 year ago
This kind of stuff makes me want to go into Citi group world HQ and demand the billions of dollars they owe the U.S. people. I won't mess with google though, google'll fuck you up.
ILikeTheThingsIDo 1 year ago
The answer is simple tax the RICH .
1000000hh 1 year ago
Okay. Some really simple logic here. Just putting it out there: A business is an entity that offers a good or service in exchange for (money). They make a profit, money over what they spend to be a business. You do not -give- any business any money, you buy their services. Now, a charity is an entity that is -given- money in exchange for goods or services. So why are we given these businesses charity money? No wonder so many charities are being shut down. Our businesses have turned into siphons.
DeSadeM 1 year ago 2
Both Cenk and the congressman are wrong.
Businesses only pay taxes on their profits, yet they contribute approximately 1/3 as much as income taxes. If you do the math + economics, GDP=GNI, that small businesses = large businesses in sum total, this would mean that the average businesses would have to be making absurd profits.
Business taxes should be and are an important part of the tax system, right now, they are about 1/3 as important as income taxes.
It's not 0, and it's not 35%.
therohanicelf 1 year ago
If corporations aren't paying any taxes, the first thing to do would be to get them to start paying for current taxes, not raise the taxes they wont pay. It might even help if we lowered taxes as incentive for them to pay.
nevermind0143 1 year ago
@nevermind0143 Are we supposed to lower them to nothing? If they aren't paying anything now, how would making their taxes less create any kind of an incentive?
jenisedai 1 year ago
@nevermind0143 So we should reward them for not paying any taxes?
IAmJoesProfile 1 year ago
Reducing corporate and/or personal taxes is not going to revive the lifeless corpse that used to be America's manufacturing base - that is going to take a bi-partisan strategy and a commitment by both sides of politics and the corporations still loyal to the US to work together toward a common goal and for the common good. Thats how you got on top of the Great Depression at the end of the '30s.- Can you do it again? I'm betting against it.....
crocfme 1 year ago
@crocfme I don't think manufacturing will be back until maybe 30-40 years. What would it take to bring jobs back? High taxes on companies that move over seas or large tax breaks for those that can but are thinking about it, collapse of foreign markets or similar instability, or simply cheaper labor in the US. Repubs won't budge on any tax increase. They would vote for tax breaks but never suggest it for some reason.
blasphimus 1 year ago
@blasphimus
Mostly, the very rich got that way thru exploiting the masses; it is a natural extension of that ideoligy that they would also desire to exploit the masses in avoiding their tax responsibilities. It is the job of govt to prevent this and enforce fairness in the taxation system. But as ever more expensive political campaigns are being funded by those wishing to avoid paying their fair share....How can any fairness be expected from govt?
Unfairness is integrated in the system..
crocfme 1 year ago
@blasphimus
That is why I am pessimistic about America's recovery. I agree with you that it will take 30-40 years (Probably longer if the electoral/political system is not reformed.)
crocfme 1 year ago
is it just me or Republicans seem scared when talking about corporation taxes?
yes4me 1 year ago
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Autotune this and make it a song.
Maziyar 1 year ago
corporations that have value added in USA cut taxes
corporations that have value added in foreign countries raise taxes
EsCurve 1 year ago
I'm getting sick of this country being run based on what some idiot "believes." Show me the math behind why you think that, or STFU, dumbass.
odysseus9672 1 year ago
god dam man
MrSimon510 1 year ago
bring the damn tax rates back to 30% WHERE IT SHOULD BE!!!! and if they find loopholes, fine them 10 million dollars, which is less than the 1% of B of A's tax CREDIT.
Zeldagigafan90210 1 year ago
i want to know what is stopping obama from creating an executive order shutting down the tax haven loop hole? just flat out shut down any corporation that operates in the US but have a corp HQ that is a cubicle on some island offshore some where.
803brando 1 year ago
@803brando Why would he try to get rid of his bosses?
marharth 1 year ago
@marharth good point, we're fucked i guess?
803brando 1 year ago
Trent Frank looks like J Jonah hex
hentia2 1 year ago
Watching this video I kept getting the impression that I was watching a wild animal being backed into the corner as the UNCUT journalist came at it with one fact after another. The politicians even kinda looked like dirty little rats with their beady eyes and odor of a rotting sewer.
DirtFlyer 1 year ago
"back to the spending..."
/facepalm
OtakuRebel 1 year ago
I don't like to be petty but, Trent's face just creeps me out.
Verto9999 1 year ago
Also, I LOVE that "I'd have to look at your figures" line... Ok, here are my figures *takes paper, draws a big zero on it*
How is that hard to understand? They dodge out of paying any taxes at all, the GOPers don't have an answer, they'll never get called out on it in the mainstream, and we'll continue our descent into reverse-Fascist economics, where business runs the country and the law makes the things that business wan to happen happen.
dEdGrimley 1 year ago
"Look, job creators need to be able to create jobs, so if you're not creating jobs and making less money in this country, the burden is on you. If you're not creating jobs, you can't pass the cost of doing business onto anyone else, so it's on you."
We need to tell these Republicans to SHUT. THE FUCK. UP. with this kind of argument - that they'll just pass the cost on to you. They need to start budgeting for the cost of taxes. This is anti-Smith Capitalism.
dEdGrimley 1 year ago
No wonder Robin Hood is still so strong in pop culture. It's been 1000 years on and a band of merry men are needed now more than ever.
310sucks 1 year ago