Bernie Sanders: Its Time For Them (Corporations) TO PAY UP & SHARE THE SACRIFICE

[kpete]

Release: Tax Time? Not for Giant Corporations

March 27, 2011

Sanders Calls for Shared Sacrifice

While hard working Americans fill out their income tax returns this tax season, General Electric and other giant profitable corporations are avoiding U.S. taxes altogether.

With Congress returning to Capitol Hill on Monday to debate steep spending cuts, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the wealthiest Americans and most profitable corporations must do their share to help bring down our record-breaking deficit.

Sanders renewed his call for shared sacrifice after it was reported that General Electric and other major corporations paid no U.S. taxes after posting huge profits. Sanders said it is grossly unfair for congressional Republicans to propose major cuts to Head Start, Pell Grants, the Social Security Administration, nutrition grants for pregnant low-income women and the Environmental Protection Agency while ignoring the reality that some of the most profitable corporations pay nothing or almost nothing in federal income taxes.

Sanders compiled a list of some of some of the 10 worst corporate income tax avoiders:



http://sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/news/?id=67562604-8280-4d56-8af4-a27f59d70de5
via:http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12533

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Bernie how are we going to claw this money back off these hounds?

[lib2DaBone]

2. Bernie Sanders Nails it.... But he will get no support from DU...

He will be poo-pooed and slandered as a "Radical".

In the meantime.. the Repukes will steal every last cent from this country and Fox News will call them "Patriots".

[NorthCarolina]

3. Slamming Liberals is only a pattern attributable to a certain few of the Circle-D's here on DU.

I believe the greater majority of DU, granted the less "outspoken" members for the most part, do support the efforts of Mr. Sanders.

[freshwest]

18. Can't understand it myself. They can't all be freepers. Go Bernie!

[Scuba]

4. Why is that? Bernie flips my flapjacks. n/t

[Cassandra]

7. I can't remember the last time Bernie said something...

with which I disagree.

[WillyT]

5. HUGE K & R !!!

:kick:

[kentauros]

6. So, what would it take to have the "oil and gas manufacturing deduction"

removed from the tax laws/rules? I know I'll never see my reps and senators (Texas) vote for its removal, but I'd still like to see that little kickback gone :)

[Autumn]

8. I like Bernie's idea of shared sacrifice much better than

Obamas idea of tough cuts and shared sacrifice. Because quite frankly I haven't heard any talk of tough cuts on the wealthy and corporations.

[felix_numinous]

29. +100

That saying 'shared sacrifice' was another Orweillian rewriting of the English language--with a slogan to hide something with it's exact opposite function. It is a LIE to call something 'shared' when what is happening is 'YOU sacrifice everything, while we not only sacrifice nothing--but we are actually making a profit off the deal---suckers!'

[neverforget]

9. K&R! Sanders speaks for me!

[calimary]

11. And for me also. I love Vermont!

If anyplace would be better than California it would be Vermont! Howard Dean comes from there! Patrick Leahy! Bernie Sanders! And the entire city of Brattleboro!

:patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot: :patriot:

[jemelanson]

10. YES!!!! K AND R

[glinda]

12. They will do it for a price. EVERYTHING!

[Lifelong Protester]

13. K & R from me

let the bastids share, share, share!

[reformist2]

14. "Sacrifice" implies that they should give more. But they are hardly giving anything at all now!

I'd be telling them that their 30 year free ride is over!

[Initech]

15. I think we need to establish that greed is an addiction.

These people are addicted to their money. They cant get enough of that, and attack what's left of ours. That's why these Wall St. fuckers go on Fux News and Business and say that government employees make too money. They don't because of this shit. George Carlin was right. They'll get it. They'll get it all.

[roxiejules]

16. K&R!

I'm with Bernie ~ close the loopholes. Call your Rep. and tell 'em you agree with the man from Vermont!



:kick:

[pam4water]

17. Just wishes he had the army to make them do it. But dang the military industrial complex

has the dang army!

[deacon]

19. The middle class is getting their ass kicked. n/t

[Enthusiast]

20. Did we see 60 Minutes?

It was propaganda piece of course.

The gist was that all our corporations have already left the nation because of high taxes, highest in the world.

[angry citizen]

21. Bernie Sanders

We need more like him. I am tired of the Democrats being such cowards.

[OwnedByFerrets]

22. Bernie Sanders, The Peoples Politician

[CrispyQ]

23. Bernie speaks for me.

We need more dems like Bernie & less like the CIC.

[FailureToCommunicate]

24. Wasn't Elizabeth Warren supposed to help fix some of this?

Go Bernie!

(And stay safe!)

[floriduck]

34. Not in her arena of authority.

This is IRS turf.

[Roy Rolling]

25. Cowardly Democrats

I don't think the Democratic politicians are cowardly as much as they are opportunists---they keep waiting for the draconian cuts and Republican austerity programs to backfire. And once the general public feels the pain of one-sided sacrifice, politicians will finally come out in favor of what is right. Sadly, they are thinking of their political careers more than doing what is right. And waiting for us to suffer more to make their point.

On the other hand, we are looking for someone to do what is right to demonstrate leadership and highlight the boneheaded GOP economic ideology. So far, Bernie Sanders is the only one demonstrating leadership.

[polichick]

27. I think they're complicit corporate whores - except a few like Sanders.

[defendandprotect]

31. Rather ....

Wm. Greider in his book "Who Will Tell the People?" from 1992 --

tells us that the Democrats have been collaborating with the GOP back to 1978

on reversing the tax code for the benefit of the wealthy.


The Rightwing Koch Bros. Funded the DLC --

http://www.democrats.com/node/7789

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x498414

If you knew about this, why didn't you tell us?

If you didn't know -- pass it along!

:)

[Lorien]

33. Yep. Obama sure isn't using his bully pulpit to fight for we the people

he uses it to advance RW talking points; the same ones that a certain few push here relentlessly.

[RedCloud]

26. Even the Mayans sacrificed their leaders once in a while.

[avaistheone1]

28. Bernie Sanders is a great man and a great American

k&r

[defendandprotect]

30. Let's draft Sen. Bernie Sanders 2012 -- we need a humanist in the White House -- !!

Bernie can run on a Dem ticket --

and we need two strong anti-war candidates --

how about Tom Hayden for VP?

[eomer]

32. Put a tax on offshoring jobs.

If we're going to tax them let's also craft it in a way that pushes them in the direction we want.

[greymattermom]

35. alternative minimum tax for corporations

why not? For any corporation that employs more than 100 people in the US.

[Swampguana]

36. Why doesn't anyone in congress listen to Bernie?

I bet he could fix the deficit in no time.

[BrklynLiberal]

37. LONG, long, long past due.

[JeffersonChick]

38. k & r

[Blue Owl]

39. Too much thinking

Not enough blind faith in the GOP's trickle-down theories.

:sarcasm:

[cate94]

40. k & r

Shouldn't we talk about how unpatriotic these corporations are, isn't that more effective than asking them to pay their fair share? I don't think that the word "fair" is in the corporate vocabulary.

[Beartracks]

41. But sacrifice is for the rabble, not the royalty!

Rich folks and megacorps with their record profits aren't really sharing in the pain of the recession, so why make them share in the pain of getting out of the recession?

:sarcasm:


Oh, that's right... because they're kinda responsible for it.

Bernie speaks an inconvenient truth.

Someone should get some legislation going that corporate personhood requires shared sacrifice.

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[ElsewheresDaughter]

42. USSC says corporations are considered "citizens" they should pay their taxes just like people do

[sarcasmo]

43. Bernie speaking the truth again.