Corporate Greed Crushes Iconic Cookie
A battle that is a typical story of corporate greed: Stella D’oro closed its Bronx bakery a day ahead of schedule Thursday, officially putting its 136 unionized employees out of work. The plant’s...
View ArticleCEO Pensions: Where The Money Really Is
I have written recently that the debate over CEO pay obscured the true source of executive over-the-top compensation: the astronomical levels of money hidden in the pensions of CEOs and top executives....
View ArticleWho Is Complaining About Health Care Tax?
There is a whole lot of whining coming from the corporate sector about the great "burden" entailed in the health care bill just passed. Citizens for Tax Justice digs into the topic: A new analysis...
View ArticleWall Street Pay “Vaults To Record Altitude”
Sometimes, I wonder whether we all live in a grand farce. But, actually, it’s a real-life story about a robbery of the people that continues every day–and today is no different. The robbers grow...
View ArticleThe Corporate Piggy Bank=The U.S. Treasury and YOUR Money (W Video)
Every CEO running a big multi-national company in America knows that, when times are tough, they have one sure way to save a lot of money and a place to go for cash: the U.S. Treasury. This is...
View ArticleCorp Tax Cheats 2011–Drumroll, Please
I’m about to dash off to a protest at the main postal office here in Manhattan for a Tax Day demonstration sponsored by US Uncut, the NY chapter of the Coffee Party and assorted other malcontents...
View ArticleCorp America DROWNING in Cash: Just Not Interested in Giving People Jobs
The bad news will keep pulverizing your grey cells: housing prices sliding, stock markets weak, bond yields in the toilet, the dollar down (which I actually have argued is a good thing)… But,...
View ArticleChuck Schumer Flip-Flop=Billions of Dollars In Corporate Welfare
This is just silly–but, unfortunately, not entirely surprising. Chuck Schumer has grabbed on to the idiotic idea of rewarding corporate America for tax dodging and stashing billions of dollars...
View ArticleA Civil War: We’re Eating Each Other For The Crumbs
In a crisis, it’s a tough thing to watch people scramble to survive. And those that already have a lot usually are in the driver’s seat, ready to pit one person against the other. The same is true...
View ArticleCorporate Tax Holiday Is A Scam–Sen. Levin Nails It
That CEOs of American-based, flagless corporations will say, or do, anything to make a buck–and line their own pockets–is not a surprising notion. That our political leadership keeps buying the...
View ArticleRepublican Fantasy Economics…Ooopppsss, FACTS Show Tax On Rich WON’T Hurt Job...
Oh, those poor "job creators"…they just can’t get any respect–except from Republicans, and too many Democrats, who run around undercutting jobs programs because of some phony idea that taxing the...
View ArticlePolitics Kill Unions, Not Globalization or Technology
It won’t be long before you hear–because it’s part of the framing of Democrats and Republicans alike, and traditional media "analysts" who haven’t a clue what they are taking about when it comes to...
View ArticleThe Fear Of Speaking Truth
Where do you start to comment when you read a piece that is, at best, deeply spineless, and, at worse, completely clueless? We cease to be surprised by the relentless foolishness on the part of the...
View ArticleFaux Toughness
It’s a tad better but still I remain unimpressed by the UBS felony conviction. Because the big fish are still not in jail. Don’t be mislead by this: UBS on Wednesday became the first big global bank in...
View ArticleFacebook Really Does “Like” You…As It Fleeces You, The Taxpayer
A big smooch to you from Facebook, oh unsuspecting citizen. No, it’s not a new wrinkle that will drive you mad on your profile page. It’s the usual: Facebook just “likes” you to pieces for your...
View ArticleHow Goldman Sachs Closes Libraries, Attacks Seniors and You
Goldman Sachs is one of the great predators in modern day society. I’m still waiting for the day when Goldman’s top executives face criminal indictments over the financial crisis scam — and I suspect...
View ArticleCorporate Greed Working Overtime To Find New Scam
If you are some corporate lawyer or finance guy who is looking to get ahead, the surest way to move up the food chain is to find a way to fleece the American taxpayer. Drumroll, please. The newest one...
View ArticleNOT BREAKING: Corporations “Pay Little or No Federal Income Taxes”
It’s new data but not a new revelation because this bit of news is nothing we haven’t already become accustomed to. Corporations are robbing the country, robbing because corporations pocket profits...
View ArticleThe President’s Tax Gift To Corporations Is Just Class Warfare Redux
With one hand, he giveth a few dollars to the people, and with the other hand, he showers huge corporations with a tax gift that is astounding in its…audacity? That’s how I suggest you can look at the...
View ArticleFortune 500 Stashing $2 TRILLION Overseas, Dodging $550 Billion In Taxes, The...
Big money. Two trillion dollars. If you could touch it, it would reach…oh, I dunno, I’m not going to tell you how high that stack would go and, actually, the point is, you can’t touch it: it’s stashed...
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