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These are the facts your government does NOT want you to see
Posted: August 20, 2012 in Banks, Congress, Consumer Fast, Corporations, FED, General Strike,Liberty, Obama, Senate, Strike Updates, TaxesTags: AIG, Apple, bailout, BofA, boycott, Bush, civil_disobedience, Congress,Congress_millionaires, consumer_fast, corporate_tax_rate, debt, deficits, Democrat, Digg,drop-outs, elections, Exxon_Mobil, Facebook, Federal Reserve Bank, federal_tax, GE,general_strike, Goldman_Sachs, inflation, IRS, JPMorgan Chase, lobbyist, media, Microsoft,Myspace, national_debt, non_compliance, Obama, Pelosi, Reddit, Republican, schools, Senate,social_security, Supreme Court, TARP, taxes, taxpayer, tax_code, tax_rate, Twitter, U.S. Treasury, Verizon, Warren_Buffet, WellsFargo, Youtube
While some of America’s biggest corporations may complain that they pay too much in taxes, a recent analysis shows that many are actually getting off pretty easy.
The 10 most profitable U.S. companies paid an average federal tax rate of just 9 percent last year. The group includes heavyweights Exxon Mobil, Apple, Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase and General Electric.
Some of these companies paid more than 9 percent — JPMorgan earned $26.7 billion in 2011, for example, and paid $3.7 billion of it, or 14 percent, to the federal government — and some paid less, like Exxon Mobil, which only sent 2 percent of its $73.3 billion earnings to the IRS.
But the 10 companies all paid much less than the nominal corporate tax rate of 35 percent — a number that investor and tax-the-rich advocate Warren Buffett has dismissed as “a myth,” but one that presidential front-runners Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have both proposed to lower.
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The effective corporate tax rate has been on its way down for decades, recently hitting a 40-year low even as corporate profits have reached an all-time high. Many of the companies that have seen their tax rates fall in recent years — including Exxon Mobil, Verizon, General Electric and AT&T — are among the biggest spenders when it comes to lobbying.
Fact: Corporations move our jobs overseas to take advantage of slave labor wages, lax environmental laws and no taxes. Yes, no taxes! “Free trade” allows giant multinational corporations to pay zero taxes overseas and zero taxes in America. In 2010, corporate giant GE made a profit of $14.2 billion but it paid not a penny in taxes because the bulk of those profits, some $9 billion, were offshore. In fact, GE got a $3.2 billion tax benefit.
The 2008-2010 report reveals:
Pepco Holdings, a Washington, D.C.-area power company, had the lowest effective tax rate, at negative 57.6 percent, among the 280 Fortune 500 companies studied.
General Electric Co, Paccar Inc., PG&E Corp, Computer Sciences Corp and NiSource Inc. as among the 30 that paid no taxes. All 280 corporations examined were profitable over the period.
Fact: [Tax] breaks cost the government about $102 billion in lost revenues in 2011, a year when the federal deficit was an estimated $1.3 trillion.
Power group Duke Energy Corp was one of the 30 companies listed as paying no income taxes in 2008-2010.
Fact: Seventy-eight of the 280 companies paid zero or less in federal income taxes in at least one year from 2008 to 2010. Twenty-five of these companies enjoyed multiple no-tax years, bringing the total number of no-tax years to 108. In the years they paid no income tax, these companies earned $156 billion in pretax U.S. profits. But instead of paying $55 billion in income taxes as the 35 percent corporate tax rate seems to require, these companies generated so many excess tax breaks that they reported negative taxes (often receiving outright tax rebate checks from the U.S. Treasury), totaling $21.8 billion. These companies’ “negative tax rates” mean that they made more after taxes than before taxes in those no-tax years.
These are the facts your government does NOT want you to see.
The government could have a surplus – roads, dams, hospitals and schools would not be in disrepair or overcrowded because the government would have plenty of money for all these things as they once did and would not be looking for ways to cut social security or other social programs.
You and I, however, CANNOT compete with the money corporations spend to buy off congress, (i.e. our politicians) and voting only replaces one corrupt party with the other corrupt party.
Fact: These tax-breaks have occured under Democrat and Republican administrations! Both are corrupt!
Fact: The U.S. was the largest creditor in the world. Now the debt is in the trillions of dollars. Trillions of dollars transferred from the worlds richest & most powerful country. This is a form of destructive economic management at a level of graft & corruption that has NO parallel. There’s nothing comparable to that in history. Upcoming elections do us no good. Corruption has entered every institution.
Fact: As things stand now, with federal taxes, state taxes, county tax, sales tax, property taxes, car tax, gas tax, phone taxes, etc., the governmnent takes 4 months of our wages every year in taxes. For that kind of money we should have the best schools on the planet, right? But every year 30 to 50% of our kids get LEFT BEHIND. Let me repeat, taxes take 4 months of your wages away from you every year. That’s true under Republican or Democrats.
These are the facts your government does NOT want you to see.
Fact: 237 Millionaires in Congress
Even in tough times, it’s good to be a lawmaker: According to a report released this week by the Center for Responsive Politics, there are 237 millionaires serving in Congress.
It reflects the fact that the average lawmaker is far wealthier than his or her typical constituent. While about one percent of Americans are millionaires, 44 percent of those serving in Congress can claim as much.
In some cases, [lawmakers'] wealth is being derived from the very companies that in many cases benefit from the taxpayers.
The top companies at which members of Congress are investing, many of them are TARP recipients that have received billions and billions of dollars from you and me.
Among the companies in which members of Congress hold assets are Bank of America and Goldman Sachs.
RECESSION – HIGH GAS PRICES – OUT-OF-CONTROL MEDICAL COSTS – FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE…WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both Democrats and Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? If all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, have you ever wondered why we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does. You and I don’t write the tax code. Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy. Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy. The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices- 545 human beings out of the 235 million – are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I exclude the members of the Federal Reserve Board because the Congress created that problem. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
I exclude all the special interest and lobbyist for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressmen or a president. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he/she votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of Nancy Pelosi, who stood up and criticized G.W. Bush for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives the sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for appropriations and taxes.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 235 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted – by present facts – of incompetence and irresponsibility. There is not a single domestic problem, from an unfair tax code to defense overruns, not directly traceable to those 545 people and their predecessors..
Sooner or later all freedom loving Americans will realize that the only way to stop those who would bleed our nation dry, dismantle our constitution, and dissolve our national sovereignty is to say: I will NOT work for you, buy from you, fight for you, or die for you, until the criminals are gone from the halls of our government.
Stop calling your Congressmen. THEY don’t listen! Shut It Down.
General Strikes shut down the normal operations of a city, state, or nation for a period of time. These strikes aim to force action on a single issue or broader set of concerns.
The reason for this shutdown is not to hurt this country in any way shape or form, but is, in fact, a peaceful method of sending a message to Washington, D.C.
We would like to raise awareness about steps we can all take and solutions we can all participate in.
You can take part in this exchange of information and, at the same time, contribute to Global Non-Compliance against Corruption, Theft, Fraud, and Murder.
We have always had the power to stop these crimes.
Stop the funding to all criminal activity in the corporate/political sector.
Small changes in how you spend your money will make a huge difference to the profiteers of misery.
This will not happen overnight, but in time, we could affect real change.
GeneralStrikeUSA is engaged in what could be called “the people’s sovereignty movement.” We challenge the legitimacy of the US Supreme Court, or any other arm of government, “to bestow upon corporations the immense governing authority” implicit in the conferral of constitutional rights. We base this challenge on a solid founding principle; no governing entity may grant away the people’s right to a functional republican form of government. We contend that excessive corporate power has undermined this basic right of the people. (POCLAD, 2003) (See Also, Grossman, et, al, 2003).
Rather than try to change Supreme Court decisions, the people’s sovereignty movement is building popular support for eliminating corporate constitutional rights; they are urging their fellow citizens to effectively say, “We hold ultimate authority, and despite what the Supreme Court says, we did not grant away our sovereignty over you when we made you a corporation.” So, what concrete steps does one take to make this tangible?
We live in a time when elected politicians ignore the needs of their constituents; where the judiciary and police institutions will not uphold the rights of citizens; where the media are afraid to report the truth; where lawlessness abounds and ordinary people are left unprotected and defenseless against the rapacity of a few. The answer to our dilemma is for people of courage to actively help each other. Only if we unite can we succeed. That is the only way. There is no other way. People, get up, stand up! ORGANIZE!
The General Strike is a national call to action, from citizens to other citizens.
The strike targets key issues facing the American public, issues that have not been addressed in any meaningful way by any branch of government.
Unions, corporations and the major parties have failed to deal with pressing matters of war and peace, income inequality, crime and punishment and the meaning of citizenship itself. It has fallen to the American people to set things right!
Public protest is an important part of democracy, just as much as a free press, a judiciary, and congress. A general strike does NOT have to be violent. It is a matter of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE, NOT VIOLENCE. You are NOT going to school. You are NOT going to work. You are NOT shopping. You do NOT have to be violent to NOT do those things. March legally. Protest legally.
Our causes are many but our voices are one.
You will need to plan, set up and hold your own local protest. Vigorously promote your protest via local activist and church groups. Also on social networking sites- Facebook, Meetup, Tribe, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, etc. Call in to talk radio shows, print and distribute this flyer, create freeway banners, write OPEDs, etc., etc. You will need to organize enough people to shut down, disrupt normal operations of your local city, town, county and state.
There will be ZERO mainstream media discussion of this protest BEFORE it happens. ZERO. So, we must BE OUR OWN MEDIA and promote it. Post this link to blogs, forums, etc. VIDEO LINK: http://www.onetruemedia.com/shared?p=e6d59c26c710c41ad8703b&skin_id=1602&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url
PROMOTE IT!
Put it on your personal pages, send this URL to your friends, mention it with links in your comments. PROMOTE IT:http://www.generalstrikeusa.wordpress.com
Join the Consumer Fast already underway:
If you do any banking with BofA, Wells Fargo or other large banks CLOSE those accounts NOW. Move all banking to small local independent banks or Credit Unions.
BOYCOTT CORPORATE MEDIA.
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Republicans, Democrats, Independents and non-voters UNITE. Your Americans first!
NO SPEND PROTEST.
This is NOT just about RECESSION, GAS PRICES, or FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE. This is NOT just about inflation and high taxes. This is NOT just about bailouts, corrupt media or out of control spending. The WHOLE system is CORRUPT.
Stop calling your Congressmen. THEY don’t listen! Shut It Down.
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