This building sucks!

[Scuba]

[KansDem]

1. Bust these bastards!!!

They need to pay their taxes, just like everyone else.

It's time they start working for a living!

[ReRe]

2. Think about it...

...what would happen if WE didn't pay OUR taxes? Where are OUR loopholes? Where are OUR subsidies?

[AdHocSolver]

5. The middle class and the working class were provided subsidies...

...so long as the one percent needed American workers who were educated and skilled to man the factories and offices of the corporations.

As long as the corporate hierarchy needed the people as workers and as customers, low-cost education was available for the masses, transportation was relatively inexpensive, health care was affordable, home ownership was subsidized in the form of tax write-offs, pensions were provided, and unions were relatively strong and enjoyed political clout.

Nowadays, thanks to automation and the availability of inexpensive foreign labor, production and new markets are available in what were once considered (economically speaking) "underdeveloped" countries.

Americans are no longer needed by the one percent economic elite. The elite are sending us this message.

[ReRe]

13. Why didn't I say that?

"Alas! we're not needed by our masters anymore."



Getting ready to read Pitty the Billionaire by Thomas Franks. Probably need to do it in a padded room with regular doses of sedatives and BP meds. Wish me luck.

[krispos42]

3. k&r n/t

[Amonester]

4. How many corrupt pols own stock portfolios in this sucking shack?

That is the question, otherwise, why the F are they allowed to continue the endless sucking?

Who will stop them?

[valerief]

6. But Congress lets us know every minute of every day that the most important thing

in the world is to make rich people richer. That's all that matters. We're nothing more than swatted flies.

[caseymoz]

7. If we haven't invaded the Cayman Islands

. . . we owe Grenada and Panama big apologies.

Not to mention Iraq an and Afghanistan.

Cayman Islands are doing far more harm to us than any of those.

[tonybgood]

9. We've certainly invaded other countries with less cause and less to gain!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

8. K&R nt

[Brigid]

10. Today's version of . . .

The Bastille.

[Nine]

11. Ugland House, for people who want to learn more. (nt)

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. Without a serious change in the tax laws, there will always be places like that

Not just a change in rates, but a complete restructure. Without it, what they are doing is legal tax avoidance, not illegal tax evasion