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bjobotts

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3. Not if we change our trade policies. Not aa "tax hit" to pay your fair share.
Thu Feb 25, 2016, 07:08 PM
Feb 2016

Before Reagan corporations paid 90%...Kennedy brought it down to 65% but closed loop holes. Profiteers want it all without paying any taxes. Sorry...it's the admission price for being in a democracy. We need to change our trade policies so it is just as expensive to make it or service it overseas and then bring it back here as it would be just to make it here in the first place...only the profits and the jobs stay in America. When we had tariffs and none of these ridiculous trade policies plus the 90% corporate tax rates, corporations put their money back in their businesses rather than let it go to Uncle Sam in taxes. Back when there was no income inequality killing the poor and the middle class The 90% tax rate only kicked in after the first 5 or 10 million in profits. "When does the greed stop" How many more billions does one have to have to quit bitching about paying $148 million in taxes. All corporations need to be regulated and quit manipulating and bribing our democracy.

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