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Related: About this forumBernie Sanders Blows Up The Koch Publicity Tour With A Ten Megaton Truth Bomb
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/04/bernie-sanders-blows-koch-publicity-tour-ten-megaton-truth-bomb.htmlHAYES: Thats Charles Koch expressing his commitment to ending corporate welfare. Do you buy that, Senator?
SANDERS: Making life for people better no doubt. Look, in 1980, Chris and we dont talk about this enough David Koch ran for vice president of the United States on the libertarian partys ticket. What his agenda was was not to cut Social Security or Medicare, but to end Social Security, end Medicare, end Medicaid, end the EPA, end the concept of the Environmental Protection Agency. Basically, he wanted to eliminate virtually every program developed since FDR designed to help working people end the middle class. That is their agenda. And to tell you the truth, you know, 30 years have come and gone. I dont think that agenda has changed at all. What these guys are doing is spending unbelievable sums of money, from $900 million on this campaign cycle, to support right-wing candidates for going to war. Big-time against working families and the middle class. No, I do not think the Koch brothers want to make life better for ordinary people.
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Bernie Sanders Blows Up The Koch Publicity Tour With A Ten Megaton Truth Bomb (Original Post)
eridani
Nov 2015
OP
Telling the truth can be so powerful. Too bad so few are willing to do it. Maybe Bernie's example
sabrina 1
Nov 2015
#1
With Each Passing Day - The Truths That Bind Become Clearer - That Our Democracy Must Be Reclaimed
cantbeserious
Nov 2015
#3
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)1. Telling the truth can be so powerful. Too bad so few are willing to do it. Maybe Bernie's example
will help others find the courage to expose who is behind the takeover of our government with MONEY! Sometimes that's what it takes, one person to step forward and simply tell the truth to give others the courage to do so also.
ALBliberal
(2,349 posts)2. I love Senator Sanders that is all.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)3. With Each Passing Day - The Truths That Bind Become Clearer - That Our Democracy Must Be Reclaimed
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rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)4. The Populist Movement is well underway. nm
Triana
(22,666 posts)5. A recent NYTimes op-ed promotes misleading language of tax "loopholes"
Reading the New York Times this morning, you may have come across an op-ed railing against corporate welfare and crony capitalism tax breaks that give billions to the rich. On first glance, one might think this a leftist critique á la Bernie Sanders. But no. The authors, Marc Short and Andy Koenig, are the president and senior policy advisor at Freedom Partners, a political operation worth hundreds of millions of dollars associated with conservative billionaire Charles Koch.
The first hint at the authors politics comes when they single out particular beneficiaries of the corporate tax break largesse: Hollywood and wind-energy producers, both business sectors associated with the Democratic Party. Anti-Hollywood rhetoric has been a mainstay for Christian conservatives for decades, of course, and sustainable energy has been pilloried on the right at least since Reagan took the solar panels off the White House roof. On the subject of breaks for oil companies, worth an estimated $4 billion a year, the authors remain silent.
Still, a conservative attack on corporate tax loopholes seems like a break from tradition until you look more closely at what the authors are recommending: across-the-board rate cuts. Several Republican presidential candidates have been taking a similar policy tack. In each case, the result is vastly lower taxes for corporations and the wealthy, with hand-waving explanations of the budget shortfalls that would likely result.
Lower taxes for multinational corporations and the wealthy are nowhere on the average Americans agenda; indeed, two thirds of Americans think corporations pay too little in taxes, and about 60% think the wealthy are paying too little. In fact, underpayment by the wealthy and corporations is what bothers Americans most about the tax system, more than the complexity of the system and even the amount they pay in taxes.
The first hint at the authors politics comes when they single out particular beneficiaries of the corporate tax break largesse: Hollywood and wind-energy producers, both business sectors associated with the Democratic Party. Anti-Hollywood rhetoric has been a mainstay for Christian conservatives for decades, of course, and sustainable energy has been pilloried on the right at least since Reagan took the solar panels off the White House roof. On the subject of breaks for oil companies, worth an estimated $4 billion a year, the authors remain silent.
Still, a conservative attack on corporate tax loopholes seems like a break from tradition until you look more closely at what the authors are recommending: across-the-board rate cuts. Several Republican presidential candidates have been taking a similar policy tack. In each case, the result is vastly lower taxes for corporations and the wealthy, with hand-waving explanations of the budget shortfalls that would likely result.
Lower taxes for multinational corporations and the wealthy are nowhere on the average Americans agenda; indeed, two thirds of Americans think corporations pay too little in taxes, and about 60% think the wealthy are paying too little. In fact, underpayment by the wealthy and corporations is what bothers Americans most about the tax system, more than the complexity of the system and even the amount they pay in taxes.
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http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2015/11/23-how-not-to-talk-about-taxes-loopholes-williamson?cid=00900015020089101US0001-11231