“Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.” YearsCountryCompanyHavensTaxesPaperTradeCorporateDozenCitizenshipPapersBermuda Author:Richard Neal
“The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons. ... Republicans: The No. 1 reason the rest of the world thinks we're deaf, dumb, and dangerous.” ThinkingWorldReasonChristianPoliticalPartyLibertyBoysDangerousRepublicanTaxesGolfRadioDumbCorporateRacistPantsCheatEconomistBullyDeafConvenienceFundamentalistSwampsDevelopersFaith BasedMidgetNihilistMisanthropicSweatshopsTycoonsShills Author:Garrison Keillor
“Indeed the three policy pillars of the neoliberal age-privatization of the public sphere, deregulation of the corporate sector, and the lowering of income and corporate taxes, paid for with cuts to public spending-are each incompatible with many of the actions we must take to bring our emissions to safe levels.” AgeActionThreeLevelsCuttingPolicySafeTaxesPaidSpendingIncomeCorporateSpheresEmissionsPillarsPrivatizationDeregulation Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate
“Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.” ThinkingCountryStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEconomyPolicyCoupleCostTaxesMajorsRateDrivingCorporateCanadaRegionsMexicoReservesElectricityReducingManufacturingRenaissanceReduction Author:Rick Perry
“Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.” GenerationsTaxesImpactCorporateUnethical Author:James P. Hoffa
“I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.” I CanGovernmentGoalForgetTaxesPercentRateSignificantObjectivesCorporateTargetRelevantLowestMargins Author:Stephen Harper
“And it would be fair. Everyone will pay the same tax and it will eliminate tax cheaters and corporate shenanigans.” Would BePayEconomyTaxesFairsCorporateCheaterShenanigans Author:Steve Forbes
“We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsGivingStatesFactsKidsAmericaSocialPoorUnitedQualityLeaderBreakUnited StatesCuttingSecurityCollegeTaxesChinaSellingCorporateSocial SecurityElderlyAllegianceBillionaireQuality EducationSelling OutTax BreaksPreschool Author:Bernie Sanders
“An across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes ... to expand the incentives and opportunities of private expenditures.” OpportunityCuttingTaxesBottomIncomeCorporateBoardsIncentivesIncome TaxExpenditures Author:John F. Kennedy
“We owe to every businessperson and worker in America the best environment in the world to create a job. We owe that to American business. 35 percent corporate tax rate is the second highest in the world. We need to lower it so they don’t leave.” WorldNeedsHelpingJobsAmericaGoalClassEnvironmentFiveMiddleTaxesHighestPercentWorkersRateCorporateThirtyMiddle ClassAmerican Business Author:Lindsey Graham
“My plan has all that. It's energy independence. It will help our economy. It's a significant tax cut for corporations, including automatic expensing. It's bringing all those profits home from Europe without any taxation. It's lowering our corporate - or our personal rate to 28 percent, the same rate that Ronald Reagan had.” HelpingHomeEnergyEconomyCuttingPlansTaxesPercentEuropeIndependenceRateIncludingProfitSignificantCorporateCorporationsTaxationTax CutsEnergy Independence Author:Sean Hannity
“We faced a crisis caused by the Federal Reserve, the corporate tax system, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the Community Reinvestment Act. But the response of many people in Washington was to blame it on capitalism.” PeopleCommunityTaxesCapitalismCrisisBlameResponseCorporateReservesMacsFederal ReserveMaeTax System Author:David Boaz
“The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963.” MeanLastsCuttingDemandTaxesSummerFinalsBottomBurdenIncomeAdministrationConsumersCorporateBoardsInitiativeIncome TaxStrengtheningTax SystemLast SummerDeterrence Author:John F. Kennedy
“In the Washington soft money game, big business and big labor are accomplices working together to protect the mushy middle of big government, with plenty of special interest plums: Big unions get big spending and big business gets corporate welfare and special tax breaks - all at the expense of average Americans.” BigsGovernmentTogetherGamesInterestBreakMiddleSpecialProtectTaxesLaborUnionsAverageSpendingPlentyCorporateWelfareWorking TogetherExpensesSpecial InterestsBig BusinessBig GovernmentPlumsAccomplicesTax Breaks Author:John McCain
“Do away with the corporate loopholes that allow major profitable corporations to stash their money in the Cayman Islands and not pay a nickel in some cases in federal income taxes.” PayCasesTaxesMajorsIncomeCorporateCorporationsIslandsProfitableIncome TaxLoopholesNickelsCayman Islands Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“The point being we used to have a system that wasn't as rigged in how the tax structure functioned. The president [Barack Obama] and I have been trying to get rid of some of these loopholes for some time. Look, we have to change the corporate culture.” TryingLooksHas BeensUsedCulturePresidentTaxesStructureBarackCorporatePresident Barack ObamaCorporate CultureLoopholesRigged Author:Joe Biden
“In fact, the corporations are driving out the competition and it is not getting better, especially when they are not paying income taxes. Thank goodness for the social media out there, because we sure can't count on the corporate media to get the word out.” FactsSocialMediaTaxesGoodnessCompetitionSocial MediaDrivingIncomeCorporateCorporationsGet BetterIncome Tax Author:Dolores Huerta
“Donald Trump wants to dramatically reduce America's corporate tax rate (to 15%) and thereby unleash economic growth. Hillary Clinton hasn't said a word about lowering corporate tax rates. Being a Fedzillacrat, you don't need to be an economic soothsayer to know that she supports taxing the producers and further strangling America's anemic economy.” KnowsWantNeedsSaidAmericaGrowthSupportEconomyEconomicTrumpTaxesClintonRateProducersCorporateEconomic GrowthStrangling Author:Ted Nugent
“In America, we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. One of the reasons why companies have so much money offshore is because it's cheaper!” WorldReasonAmericaCompanyTaxesHighestRateCorporateReason WhyCheaperOffshore Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If Trump and his team are able to lower the corporate tax rate to 15%, you look out. The left have told people that corporations are gonna hide the money or shelter the money or keep it for the CEO. They're not gonna give it away, they're not gonna sharing it, it isn't gonna trickle down. You watch.” PeopleIfsGivingLooksAbleLeftWatchesTeamTrumpTaxesRateCorporateCorporationsShelterCeoOld PeopleTrickle Down Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace Obamacare, identify radical Islam, lower taxes, repatriate corporate profits, build the border wall, appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, fix inner cities, energy independence, drain the swamp, send education back to the states, you know, say radical Islam, vet refugees, all of these important issues, free trade.” PeopleKnowsNeedsImportantStatesRememberEnergyCitiesIssuesWallTrumpPromiseTaxesIndependenceTradeCourtIslamProfitFocusedSupremeRadicalCorporateBordersSupreme CourtRefugeeObamacareDrainsStay FocusedFree TradeSwampsImportant IssuesInner CityVetsRadical IslamEnergy Independence Author:Sean Hannity
“Trump has been very, very open and clear on what he's going to do. He's going to make the U.S. very competitive on taxes, corporate and personal. He's eliminating policy on carbon and the regulatory environment on shale and energy and pipeline development. These are all things that Canada has to do and we no longer have a competitive environment to do them in. It manifests itself in the slow grind of our economy.” Has BeensEnergyEconomyClearEnvironmentPolicyDevelopmentTrumpTaxesAll ThingsCorporateCanadaCarbonGrindEliminatingPipeline Author:Kevin O'Leary
“You got to remember, S corporations pay one layer of tax, corporations pay two layers of tax. So we basically see equivalent, but here`s the point. The rest of the world, they tax their businesses at an average rate in the industrialized world of 23 percent. Our corporate is 35. Our top S corporate, small business rate is 44.6 effectively. This is killing us.” WorldTwoRememberPayTaxesPercentKillingRateAverageCorporateCorporationsLayersSmall Business Author:Paul Ryan
“Would I feel comfortable with Hillary Clinton taking care of my money down there? That I pay the taxes, corporate taxes down there? I wouldn't feel comfortable at all. They've just continuously spent money and people are up to here with it.” PeopleFeelsCarePayTaxesComfortableClintonCorporate Author:Doug Ford, Jr.
“Textbooks don't teach people how to avoid paying any income tax. But that's what an army of tax lawyers and corporate tax accountants do.” PeopleTeachTaxesArmyLawyerIncomeCorporateIncome TaxTextbooksAccountants Author:Michael Hudson
“The worst loophole is what Donald Trump has talked about: the tax deductibility of interest. If you let real estate owners or corporate raiders borrow the money to buy a property or company, and then pay interest to the bondholders, you'll load the company you take over with debt. But you don't have to pay taxes on the profits that you pay out in this way. You can deduct the interest from your tax liability.” IfsWayRealInterestPayCompanyWorstTrumpTaxesPropertyProfitDebtCorporateOwnersLoadEstatesLiabilityLoopholesRaiders Author:Michael Hudson
“Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.” ShouldHumansSaidStillsWarStatesShowsEarthLawPoliticalDesireOrderLeftNationsSocialSecretCompassionVirtueTaxesWasteArmyPoliceCourtMythInevitableSelfishnessObedienceCorporatePropagandaAssumptionJailDisorderAppetiteArrangementsSomething BetterTreatiesCivicsHideousLaw And OrderSecret PoliceCivic Virtue Author:Daniel Berrigan
“America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.” AmericaFormPoliticalDemocracyCuttingPolicyTaxesBenefitsFlowRewardsCorporateRegimesElitesTax CutsOne Direction Author:Bill Moyers
“The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.” PeopleMenWantYearsLittlesSecretWonderBreakMillionsTaxesDollarsCorporateDirtyPoolMillion DollarsJetMortgageNaughtyTax Breaks Author:Dee Dee Myers
“Obama wants to take the individual small business tax to 44 percent, and the corporate rate - he says - down to 28 percent or whatever. But that really damages the small businesses. And it doesn't make us competitive. You got to take them both down to 20, because state and local corporate taxes are 5 percent.” WantStatesIndividualTaxesPercentRateLocalsCorporateDamageSmall Business Author:Grover Norquist
“If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.” IfsMeanKidsCompanyBreakCuttingCollegeTaxesDollarsOilBillionsCorporateGasOwnersMillionaireScholarshipJetBillionaireTax BreaksOil And Gas Author:Barack Obama