Seen on Tubmlr: Obviously, they can afford to pay more in taxes

[gollygee]

In fact, it would probably have cost them less in the long run.

[Heidi]

1. Kick!

[TalkingDog]

2. kick for logic

[ThomThom]

3. true that

kick

[txdemsftw]

4. A-F*cking-Men!!!!

K/R!

[Aeroette]

5. Selfish bastards

Kick

[allan01]

6. re:Seen on Tubmlr: Obviously, they can afford to pay more in taxes

bril. my dr and i discussed this very subject the other day and what a waste of money where instead that the corps could have spent all that money for living wages for the workers.man, if i was a share holder , id object to this kind of spending .

[BlueMan Votes]

7. after spending all that money- they're tapped out.

sorry...

[krispos42]

8. If they can afford to buy US Treasuries, they can afford to pay highter taxes.

They're quite willing to loan the US money, but not pay it in taxes. Ergo, they have the money, they just don't want to give it up.



Sort of like how poor people don't need any help because they can afford new sneakers. Or own a microwave oven.

[Coyotl]

9. REC

[meeshrox]

10. K&R

[Whiskeytide]

11. Well, I like to look at it as...

... They spent billions stimulating the TV, radio and print industries. As well as the many pretend pundit, skewed statistician and unthinking tank jobs they created. The skin bronzer manufacturers and make-up artists did well too. And think of all the employees at Wikipedia who worked tirelessly to update the meaning of the word "rape" hourly for the last three months! We should be thanking them.

[DarleenMB]

14. Let's not forget

they own the media so they just laundered the money back into their own pockets.

[xtraxritical]

16. At least it was in America and they will have tax liability for those profits.

How about taxing ALL US registered corporations profits no matter where in the world these profits are earned?

[Sherman A1]

12. Well Said!

[kag]

13. In the immortal and insightful words of Buffy, the vampire slayer...

"Does the word 'duh' mean anything to you?"

[sebastianj333]

15. Well Said! KICK

what a bunch of hypocrites and phoneys!

[WhoIsNumberNone]

17. K&R

[dchill]

18. Logic.

[Royal Sloan 09]

19. k & r, A very good ? for those GOP leaders, nt

[Blue_Tires]

20. kick for truth

[progressoid]

21. fuckinA!

[pacalo]

22. There you have it.

[flakey_foont]

23. Yes!

[L0oniX]

24. No shit!

[abelenkpe]

25. K&R nt

[ErikJ]

26. And Rove got 10% of it. nt

[horsedoc]

27. K&R!

[Cha]

28. That's right you Greedy ol Plutocrats! nt

[FailureToCommunicate]

30. The truth is strong with this one!

[MrModerate]

31. To be fair . . .

They did do a lot of job creatin' in the television, radio, outdoor advertising and newspaper businesses. Maybe they thought that qualified as "doing their civic duty."

[colsohlibgal]

32. The 1950s

If an individual top tax rate of 36 % or whatever would force CEOs to can people why weren't businesses going belly up all over the place in the 50s when the top rate was 91 or 92% each year? I'd like someone to pose that to Boehner and watch him squirm.

[calimary]

33. KICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[caseymoz]

34. But those were investments!!

Really, they intended to make a profit from those. Unfortunately, they can't write it off as a business loss on their income taxes.

Considering they got nothing for all that money, that is, Citizens United backfired on them, they might actually come around to seeing that just shutting up and paying taxes would be cheaper.

Um, but that's a joke. Of course they won't.

[socialindependocrat]

35. Now they have NO money for taxes or jobs because they spent it all on elections!

I guess that shows what would happen to our money
if we were to privatize!

Make Social Security UNTOUCHABLE!