One way to keep Social Security Solvent
David Lagstein and Steven Gill discuss Corporate Taxes (by KPBSSanDiego)
Don’t forget to tell your California state senator to support AB 2439
"Trickle Down" Is a Plutocratic Religion, Not an Economic Theory
…globalized corporate trade is conducted to increase the profits of large corporate entities. The result is the exact opposite, in many cases, of trickle down. Due to trade agreements that allow corporations to place factories in the lowest cost country, creating near slave-labor conditions - as BuzzFlash at Truthout has shown - for workers who, for example, make almost all American high-tech products overseas.
This does not trickle down jobs to Americans; it exports American jobs and devalues the compensation and benefits of US jobs that remain. Furthermore, in terms of NAFTA and Mexico, it dumps subsidized American products - particularly agricultural - south of the border and renders many small farmers in Mexico and Central America unable to compete. This is just one of the factors that results in increased migration to the US: the need to survive.
Questions for “Gridlock Grover” Norquist and his Shrinking Flock
- Do you currently feel bound by the anti-tax pledge held and enforced by Grover Norquist’s organization, Americans for Tax Reform?
- Do you believe that your Oath of Office to support the Constitution trumps Mr. Norquist’s pledge and any other special interest pledge?
Ten Giant U.S. Companies Avoiding Income Taxes
- Exxon Mobil
- Bank of America
- General Electric
- Chevron
- Boeing
- Valero Energy
- Goldman Sachs
- Citigroup
- ConocoPhillips
- Carnival Cruise Lines
This happens because voters let them make the rules.
