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“All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?”

“Corporate crime kills far more people and costs taxpayers far more money than street crime.”

People Streets Crime Cost Corporate Corporations More Money Taxpayers

Book:Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

Source: Take it personally: how to make conscious choices to change the world

“There is no reason why anyone in this country should be lacking health care when America has the resources right now. It would not cost much more than what we are paying right now. As a matter of fact, Americans are paying for a universal standard of care. They are just not getting it because it is all about corporations making a profit. It is not about people. Support Medicare for all.”

“... between government, business, and the public, there is a triangular community of interest. Clearly, it is in business' interest to shape its behavior to prevailing public values; it is more efficient to do so than not to do so. It is also clear that government is the high-cost alternative through which public values are imposed on corporations that do not accurately perceive these values.”

Government Values Interest Community Clear Cost Shapes Behavior Alternatives Perceive Corporations Efficient Prevailing

Author:Juanita M. Kreps

“In a time of serious budget deficits, immense war costs and a sluggish economy, we cannot afford to grant such outlandish subsidies to some of our Nations largest corporations.”

War Nations Economy Serious Cost Budgets Corporations Grants Immense Deficit Subsidies Sluggish Outlandish Budget Deficit

Author:Ron Kind

“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn't seem to know that the cost of living, the price of beans, of flour, of rent, of medicines all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn't know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.”

“When corporations get special handouts from the government, subsidies and tax breaks, it costs you. It means you have to pay more in taxes to make up for these hidden expenses, and government has less money for good schools and roads, Medicare and national defense and everything else you need.”

Needs Mean Government School Pay Break Special Cost Taxes Defense Corporations Expenses Medicare Subsidies National Defense Tax Breaks Handouts Good School

Author:Robert Reich

“The Media are corporations so... It's the concentrations of private power which have an enormous, not total control, but enormous influence over Congress and the White House and that's increasing sharply with sharp concentration of private power and escalating cost of elections and so on.”

House White Influence Media Cost Election Congress Enormous Corporations Concentration White House Escalating

Author:Noam Chomsky

“It's not a cost of doing business when the corporation executives go to jail, and that's why they fight so hard to make sure the prosecutors' budget are very limited and that the campaign cash-greased lawmakers keep defending them against being held accountable.”

Hard Fighting Cost Campaigns Budgets Corporations Executives Jail Cash Prosecutor Lawmakers

Author:Ralph Nader

“It doesn't cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.”

Ifs Eye Cost Contact Corporations Hallways Eye Contact

Author:Tony Hsieh

“When I talk about how we're going to pay for education, how we're going to invest in infrastructure, how we're going to get the cost of prescription drugs down, and a lot of the other issues that people talk to me about all the time, I've made it very clear we are going where the money is. We are going to ask the wealthy and corporations to pay their fair share.”

People Made Asks Pay Issues Clear Share Cost Drug Fairs Down And Made It Corporations Wealthy Infrastructure Prescriptions Talk To Me Fair Share Prescription Drugs

Author:Hillary Clinton

“In addition to this, they already have a fuel cell car on the road in Japan. It is subsidized from within the corporation because they are still at a high cost.”

Stills Car Cost Cells Corporations Fuel Japan Fuel Cells

Author:Maurice Strong

“Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.”

Political Pay Class Cost Taxes Grateful Productions Seeking Burden Credit Passing Passings Consumers Corporate Corporations Taxation Subsidies Exemption

Author:George Will