Rising food, power, taxes, water, and gas prices but who is getting the breaks in this country? Corporations whose CEOs make mega buck salaries but are paying less and less in their taxes. There is a difference between paying too much in taxes and paying your fair share of taxes. Also this myth that the workers of this country are to blame for the economic crisis when it’s the people on Wall Street who are the actual cause of their own economic problems tells me that we should go to the streets like they did in Europe and Egypt to show that we are a Democracy not a Plutocracy like the United States where the government is f__ked up by the Republican and Tea Party with their bureau of misinformation, FOX news. —Something really wrong here
This article appears in Mar 17-23, 2011.
And just who do you think takes it in the keister when we have a collectivist government that believes in “Making the rich pay”? The very rich didn’t get that way by being stupid or by being burdened by a sense of ethics or fair play. When governments get too greedy, those with money will use it to move themselves and their wealth rather than be shaken down. And who the hell can blame them? It’s always the middle class who carry the burden and that is where the left and the right converge on policy. It’s called killing the goose because it can’t lay enough golden eggs to pay for some political hump’s Grand Vision. And when the middle class are gone – watch out!
GO Plutocracy!
I’d vote for Pluto
http://www.picturesandpics.com/images/colo…
Hell, I’d even for for this Pluto over Harper…
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID15…
and anyone who’s seen that movie know how strong a statement that truly is.
The middle class doesn’t exsist
is this annie in a new personna? trying to get a fuck at the middle class now? seeing as the underclass, is beneath his superior intelligence. or is this just a bitcher, pissed off, at all the shit that the poor suckers of middle class has to endure? either way, we are who we are, and minus a big lotto win, will stay that fucking way, til the day we croak.
LS, it sounds more like the Selina chick who posts in the Horrid. Sounds like her leftie opinions anyway.
The top 100 CEOs of Canada make in 4.5 hours on their first work day of the year; the same as the average Canadian makes in a year.
So obviously; in a month they have acquired more funds than any of us posting here will have seen in 30+ years.
Someone’s head should be on a stick over that.
If you do business in this country, you should pay taxes in this country.
It’s shocking how often this basic concept is violated by some very profitable corporations.
It hardly requires the services of a creative tax accountant to move profits out of this country. The government is very accomodating in this regard.
For those of you who still doubt the power of regular people to make changes, try googling “U.K. Uncut”. Last year, U.K. citizens were tired of profitable corporations paying NO TAX. They organized a number of actions against retail outlets. No broken windows or vandalism. Just stores full of people who were not, in fact, customers, milling around, crowding the places up, sharing information with REAL shoppers about the failure of these profitable corporations to pay any taxes. The government’s tax exemptions and tax holidays for profitable corporations are being revisited as a result of these actions.
“Uncut” groups are forming throughout North America and Europe.
Growth in the size of government alone doesn’t account for budget shortfalls, government deficits, increased taxes and user fees. There has been a deliberate shift in tax policy over the last thirty years, the gist of which has been to move the tax burden off of corporations and the wealthy and onto the backs of the middle class.
Ivan, the wealthy are already hiding their money in off-shore tax havens, with the assistance of their friends in government. Corporations which pay little or no tax are doing so with the collusion of governments which build “loopholes” into the tax code. The solution to the problem is not to give these folks more of what they want.
Canada has been particularly agressive in reducing corporate taxes and next year will have the lowest rate in the G7. But aside from that, there are numerous profitable corporations which pay NO TAX whatsoever.
The vast majority of working people who pay their rising tax bills every year are being suckered into believing there is no other way.
Don’t forgot all the cash they give to the welfare people. How about getting those welfarians out sweeping the streets, raking leaves, emptying garbage cans, and picking up dog shit? Make them work for those welfare checks.
sebastian remember, we can’t make those poor downtrodden folk dance for their supper.
speaking of the tea party loons op http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcYYs0eaiEE