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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNew Report: Corporate Welfare Turns Rich People into Lazy Moochers
Contrary to conventional wisdom, tax breaks and corporate welfare structures turn the ultra-rich into lazy moochers, and not motivated corporate citizens. By monitoring the daily lives of CEOs heading Americas largest tax dodgers, the Society for Motivated Americans (SMA) was able to conclude that extreme corporate welfare benefits make the super-rich lazy and complacent. Most of them spend an inordinate amount of time hobnobbing in lavish resorts and playing Candy Crush on corporate jets, said Jeff Zebo of SMA.
Zebo provided Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan as a prime example. BOA is the nations leading tax dodger, having paid zero taxes in 2010 a $1.9 billion tax break after receiving more than a trillion dollars in bailout money. Has this made Moynihan motivated? asked Zebo. No the man can barely pay attention on the job. And he sleeps all the time employees sometimes stumble into his office and find him face down on the desk mumbling about things like milk shakes and Aruba.
Zebo cited Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein as another prime example. Goldman Sachs is the second-largest recipient of corporate welfare, paying zero in taxes in 2010 despite profits of $2.3 billion. He sits around his mansion most days eating chips, drinking Belgian beer and taking conference calls in a bathrobe while secretly playing Call of Duty, said Zebo. And when hes forced to leave his house, its clear he just wants back on his couch.
According to the SMA study, such examples are rampant in the corporate community, blowing apart the long-held notion (among the super-rich and Republicans) that tax breaks make the one percent motivated to further produce.
http://ezkool.com/2014/02/new-report-corporate-welfare-turns-rich-people-into-lazy-moochers/
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New Report: Corporate Welfare Turns Rich People into Lazy Moochers (Original Post)
ErikJ
Feb 2014
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Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)1. I don't get it.....
they think that unemployment benefits keep the 99% from being motivated, but they want us to believe that they will be more motivated if THEY get help from the government.
Another hypocrisy. I'm shocked.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)2. They forget to mention their "hardworking" heirs like Paris Hilton
who sit around the pool working on their tans while making millions in dividends every day.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)3. Yep, and we all know how hard the Walton heirs work.
Every time I hear about "working hard to get ahead", I want to chew nails.