tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post2560633734668758423..comments2023-10-16T08:26:52.225-04:00Comments on No Corporate Rule: Corporate America -- Causing Austerity Cuts by Evading TaxesJefferson's Guardianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16950868026721859555noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-61710604423073717132011-03-12T20:21:16.152-05:002011-03-12T20:21:16.152-05:00JG, these repug trolls aren't capable of stick...JG, these repug trolls aren't capable of sticking to issues. They have no facts on which to base their parroting points, and lack the intelligence to frame cogent arguments. Hence, the almost instantaneous resort to personal attacks.<br />They're also too dim to grasp the fact that the so-called "government programs" they're always spouting off about <i>utterly shrivel </i>in comparison to the gigantic welfare packages provided to corporations, entire industries, and the financial/banking grifters who crashed the economy with their criminal con games.<br />But they never let facts get in <i>their</i> way, no sirree bob!Citizen Sanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10502416367434226282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-77996203813545100542011-03-12T15:55:24.906-05:002011-03-12T15:55:24.906-05:00Anonymous, please keep your comments focused on th...<b>Anonymous</b>, please keep your comments focused on the topic of the post. This isn't going to be a forum for you to attack other guest commenters when you disagree with the posted topic, or disagree with their enlightened thought and ideas, or the discourse in general.<br /><br />If there's one more personal attack from you, against another on this blog, your message(s) will be deleted. <br /><br />Oh, and please don't retort with something wacky like "free speech rights", or something equally maniacal. When you comment on this blog, consider yourself a guest here. just as I'd have <i>every right</i> to kick a rude and uncooperative guest out of my home, I <i>also</i> have the "right" to delete a comment that I consider a personal attack against another visiting my blog. Just consider this a "house rule" and we'll all get along just fine.<br /><br />If you can't "play nice" and discuss the topic without attacking others, start your own blog.Jefferson's Guardianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16950868026721859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-60456938349962590332011-03-12T15:16:47.862-05:002011-03-12T15:16:47.862-05:00@ anonymous....way to try and turn a 4.0 GPA and w...@ anonymous....way to try and turn a 4.0 GPA and working toward a Masters degree into a negative thing. You should feel proud of yourself. FYI, I'm married, and I served my country for 6 years to go to college, and I'm on scholarships, so there's you patriotism...oh and I'm married, and get this....I'm a product of a chain of several non-broken, liberal homes...so there's your family values...oh yeah and I was up all night studying, as I am most nights...a 4.0 GPA doesn't come easily when you have a small child and you are one of the few students in the Masters concurrent with Bachelors program....so not much boozing or drug abuse for me...I got done with partying over a decade ago...live off the government, I do not, but I will be borrowing money from them soon enough to finish school...and there is not a damn thing wrong with that...and I know plenty of people who have lost everything and have had to live off of them until they got back on their feet and there's not a damn thing wrong with that either...and if you think there is, then get the hell out of America...Mary Mayhemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03933011510549677230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-35720961863638297672011-03-12T12:20:35.844-05:002011-03-12T12:20:35.844-05:00Mary Mayhem:
"I will be in school forever ge...Mary Mayhem:<br /><br />"I will be in school forever getting my MS/MBA, and I plan on spending my post collegiate years using said MS/MBA to work and repay the government for said MS/MBA; it's a viscous cycle. I like to read, study, journal, and research everything. I have a 4.0 GPA."<br /><br />Sounds like you don't like to work much which is why I said you are probably a government teet sucker. Since you have a child (most likely illegitimate), this allows handouts from the government for your existence. Ain't this the truth Mary?<br /><br />Nice rant earlier at 10:40 PM. Are you bipolar or were you high on drugs/booze?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-20834179349684526482011-03-11T22:40:09.758-05:002011-03-11T22:40:09.758-05:00Anonymous,
My job is my business, you don't ...Anonymous, <br /><br />My job is my business, you don't even choose to identify yourself, so what makes you think I would share with you. If you don't like paying your taxes like the rest of us, then please, be my guest, move to another country where you don't have to. Good luck. You can go to Andorra, but you'd have to be independently wealthy. Brunei, but I think the Islamic faith scares you. Monaco, but something tells me you would find something ethnically wrong with the ancestral French living their and their "socialist" way of living. The UAE, looks like a beautiful place, I know, but I've been there several times, and it's not. It's all glam and glitter with oil money, covering up a Sharia Law infused caste system a la Saudi Arabia. You would last a few months before you ran your overly nationalist mouth about something and pissed the wrong person off or offended the wrong person. I think you should just go for it, take the plunge and move to the British Virgin Islands. They speak English, so you won't have to wrap your simplistic mind around another language. They use the US dollar as currency, so you can keep all of your money to yourself there...all of it. There is no income tax, and you have an old, rich white lady and an old rich, white-haired man (whom you may call gov-nuh, and they both drink tea, so there's your tea-party) in charge of your country instead of a super scary black man with an even scarier Muslim sounding name. Please move if you do not want to pay taxes. We all pay taxes; it's patriotic, we do not want to live in a shithole, and we help our fellow American out, because we would want and expect them to do the same when and if we were ever to be in the same crummy situation. Didn't your mom, dad, grandmother, grandfather or teacher ever TEACH you anything? Oh. Sorry. You probably went to a PRIVATE school where the teachers don't even have to have a degree to teach and get paid even LESS than the public sector, so WHO knows what you could have learned? They can teach revenge as a virtue and call it the "Golden Rule" for all we know.Mary Mayhemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03933011510549677230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-29389674051623253692011-03-11T20:45:20.656-05:002011-03-11T20:45:20.656-05:00No, Mary, I haven't seen War, Inc. I'll ch...No, Mary, I haven't seen <i>War, Inc.</i> I'll check into it and make it a point. I actually like dark comedies, so it should be interesting!<br /><br />What a great signature line on their promotional ad: <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884224/" rel="nofollow">When it comes to war...America means business</a></i>.<br /><br />Could there be any greater truth?Jefferson's Guardianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16950868026721859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-10336160306987932852011-03-11T20:06:47.421-05:002011-03-11T20:06:47.421-05:00Mary Mayhem,
Do you have a job that pays enough t...Mary Mayhem,<br /><br />Do you have a job that pays enough to cover your housing, food, etc. or are you another government teet sucker whose life depends on others paying taxes to support your existence?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-24724594184757648072011-03-11T18:46:28.586-05:002011-03-11T18:46:28.586-05:00Have you seen that movie War, Inc. with John and J...Have you seen that movie War, Inc. with John and Joan Cusack, Marissa Tomei, and Hillary Duff (who plays a Central Asian Pop Star, and is great) ? It was supposedly inspired by Naomi Klein's "Bagdad Year 0" article in Harper's. The movie kind of sucked as a political satire, but it made its point well enough. Maybe you should watch it if you haven't already. It was funny.Mary Mayhemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03933011510549677230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-84856130434158852112011-03-11T17:50:42.796-05:002011-03-11T17:50:42.796-05:00Mary, I agree, most of those chiefs running corpor...Mary, I agree, most of those chiefs running corporations are sociopaths at the very least. They have no conscience, and they have no morals or ethics. They don't feel compassion and they have no empathy. Ice water runs through their veins. <br /><br />These are the types who really govern our nation. They have essentially been delegated to make our laws and define our culture. They run our nation behind the scenes, analogous to how MS-DOS operated behind the early versions of Windows.<br /><br />It's time to eliminate "MS-DOS" and allow We the People back in as the true "operating system". <br /><br />Thanks for your thoughtful comments!Jefferson's Guardianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16950868026721859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-35795002581242750542011-03-11T16:25:53.440-05:002011-03-11T16:25:53.440-05:00Usually I don't respond to guests visiting my ...Usually I don't respond to guests visiting my blog who refuse to identify themselves as more than just "Anonymous", but I'll make an exception this one time. Next time, if you choose to visit again, please identify yourself. It's the polite thing to do.<br /><br />To give you an idea of the extent to which multinational corporations cheated you, an American taxpayer, for the tax years 2009 and 2010, these six banks: Bank of America, Wells Fargo, JP MorganChase, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley, only paid a net of $6.1 billion in federal income taxes out of $54.8 billion of reported U.S. earnings, or 11.2%. If these six banks, and only these six banks, had paid the 35% during these years, the federal government (meaning you, the taxpayer) would have received an additional $13 billion in tax revenues. And just think, this is only six banks! This is just the tip of the iceberg! <br /><br />If believing corporations should pay their fair share and shouldn't be allowed to avoid (i.e. "cheat") their tax responsibilities, makes me a "Marxist", then so be it. Call me a Marxist. <br /><br />(NOTE: Based on review of current payable income tax and earnings disclosures in the annual reports of each bank for 2009 and 2010, and available at SEC EDGAR.)<br /><br />Oh, and by the way, no I'm not a teacher, unless you count teaching people about the abuses that corporations inflict on Americans while hiding behind the legal fiction of corporate personhood. Then, yes, I guess I <i>am</i> a teacher.Jefferson's Guardianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16950868026721859555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-39012548904572622292011-03-11T13:55:33.233-05:002011-03-11T13:55:33.233-05:00Mary,
get another tattoo!Mary,<br /><br />get another tattoo!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-24976257353035798072011-03-10T20:50:25.950-05:002011-03-10T20:50:25.950-05:00...the Tea Party is on their way to serfdom along ......the Tea Party is on their way to serfdom along with the rest of us if they don't start to wise up...working class republicans do not benefit from this scheme, but we've been screaming this forever to deaf ears...Maybe this series of Great Lakes Region catastrophic legislation will open their eyes a little bit...I'm always optimistic...but then again, my experience of working in the legal community in one of the larger corporations out there, not to name any names, but it rhymes with pest, isn't spelled correctly and is based in Denver, reading the case files, most of these "bigwigs" are narcissistic, histrionic, or just plain psychopathic...people were lucky that it didn't spread from fiscal onslaught to physical violence with these guys...They will do anything to silence rational voices, and pass their agenda...Mary Mayhemhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03933011510549677230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6942096640368435333.post-24182470917624981112011-03-10T19:50:37.953-05:002011-03-10T19:50:37.953-05:00Jefferson's Guardian,
no doubt about it, you ...Jefferson's Guardian,<br /><br />no doubt about it, you must be a mediocre teacher in the public school system who could not cut it in the private sector!<br /><br />my real wages have been constantly going up and i recently got more stock options within the last few days because i PRODUCE FOR MY COMPANY!<br /><br />keep up your marxist rants, i find them extremely funny!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com