{"id":3750,"date":"2011-03-28T14:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/ge-has-chutzpah-but-not-a-shred-of-decency\/"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T21:11:35","slug":"ge-has-chutzpah-but-not-a-shred-of-decency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/ge-has-chutzpah-but-not-a-shred-of-decency\/","title":{"rendered":"GE has chutzpah but not a shred of decency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/03\/28\/ge-union-workers-cuts\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb After Paying Zero Income Taxes, GE Plans To Ask Its Union Workers To Make Wage And Benefits Concessions<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last week, the New York Times reported that, despite <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/25\/business\/economy\/25tax.html?_r=1\">making $14.2 billion in profits<\/a>, General Electric, the largest corporation in the United States, paid zero U.S. taxes in 2010 and actually received tax credits of $3.2 billion dollars. The article noted that GE\u2019s tax avoidance team is comprised of \u201cformer officials not just from the Treasury, but also from the I.R.S. and virtually all the tax-writing committees in Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After not paying any taxes and making huge profits, ThinkProgress has learned that General Electric is expected to ask its nearly 15,000 unionized employees in the United States to make major concessions. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/03\/28\/ge-union-workers-cuts\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb After Paying Zero Income Taxes, GE Plans To Ask Its Union Workers To Make Wage And Benefits Concessions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reminds me of the definition of chutzpah: killing both parents and asking for mercy as an orphan. Rob the public and the workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress \u00bb After Paying Zero Income Taxes, GE Plans To Ask Its Union Workers To Make Wage And Benefits Concessions Last week, the New York Times reported that, despite making $14.2 billion in profits, General Electric, the largest corporation in the United States, paid zero U.S. taxes in 2010 and actually received tax credits of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/ge-has-chutzpah-but-not-a-shred-of-decency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GE has chutzpah but not a shred of decency<\/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-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","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=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}