Thom Hartmann: If Corps are people - we're SCREWED

[thomhartmann]

Run time: 05:24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAN9EjT_UJ0   Posted on YouTube: August 16, 2011 By YouTube Member: TheBigPictureRT Views on YouTube: 135   Posted on DU: August 16, 2011 By DU Member: thomhartmann Views on DU: 930

 
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[handmade34]

1. rec

:kick:

[LongTomH]

2. Check out SourceWatch's entry on the 'Institute for Liberty'

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Institute_for_Liberty

[The Wizard]

3. If corporatios are people

BP should be in prison.

[BigD_95]

5. yea , good point

[saras]

4. If corporations are people, then I'm not. I'm something completely different, and superior

As are the vast majority of you (DLC trolls excepted).

There simply isn't a MEANINGFUL category that includes both humans and corporations. "Stuff you find on Earth." "Actors in twentieth-century Western jurisprudence." "Nouns."

[earcandle]

6. Taxes are compulsory contributions to the cost of government, whether taxpayer approves or not.

"Accounting for Government and Nonprofit Entities " MacGraw Hill Co. 2007

Earl R. Wilson; Susan C. Kattelus; Jacqueline L. Reck C)2007
Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data:

IBSN-13: 978-0-07-310095-1

IBSN-10: 0-07-310095-1

Wilson, Earl R., 1939.

Jacqueline L. Reck 14th Edition (2007)


Chapter 3, pg 75; 6 Para. Heading: TAXES

" Taxes are of particular importance because (1) They provide a large portion of the revenue of governmental units on all levels and
(2) they are compulsory contributions to the cost of government, whether the affected taxpayer approves or disapproves of the taxes.

Ad valorem (based on value) property taxes area mainstay of financing for many local governments but are not used as a source of revenue
by many state governments or by the federal government. Ad valorem taxes may be levied against real property and personal property. SOme property taxes are levied on a basis other than property values, one illustration being the tax on some kinds of financial institutions in relation to the deposits aat a specified date. Other kinds of taxes are sales taxes, income taxes, gross receipts taxes, death and gift taxes, and interest and penalties on delinquent taxes."