{"id":3696,"date":"2011-02-26T11:57:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/corporate-tax-dodgers\/"},"modified":"2011-02-26T11:57:08","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T17:57:08","slug":"corporate-tax-dodgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/corporate-tax-dodgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Tax Dodgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<strong>I have one dollar in my wallet. That\u2019s more than the combined income tax liability of GE, ExxonMobil, Citibank, and the Bank of America. That means somebody is gaming the system<\/strong>.\u201d &#8212; Carl Gibson, the founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usuncut.org\/\">US Uncut<\/a>, which is organizing some of today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/158282\/how-build-progressive-tea-party\">UK-inspired<\/a> massive demonstrations against tax dodgers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, as politicians are asking ordinary Americans to sacrifice their education, their health, their labor rights, and their wellbeing to tackle budget deficits, some of the world\u2019s richest multinational corporations are getting away with shirking their responsibility and <em>paying nothing<\/em>. ThinkProgress has assembled a short but far from comprehensive list of these tax dodgers \u2014 corporations which have rigged the tax system to their advantage so they can reap huge profits and avoid paying taxes: [follow the link]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/26\/main-street-tax-cheats\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb REPORT: You Have More Money In Your Wallet Than Bank Of America Pays In Federal Taxes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mad yet? Ignore the Radical Wrong\u2019s eternal whine about class warfare. The Rich can buy all the defense they need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have one dollar in my wallet. That\u2019s more than the combined income tax liability of GE, ExxonMobil, Citibank, and the Bank of America. That means somebody is gaming the system.\u201d &#8212; Carl Gibson, the founder of US Uncut, which is organizing some of today\u2019s UK-inspired massive demonstrations against tax dodgers Indeed, as politicians are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/corporate-tax-dodgers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Corporate Tax Dodgers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}