Dems Name and Shame Companies Paying Executives More Than They Pay in Federal Taxes | Common Dreams
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"In the first five years following the 2017 giveaway, 35 companies raked in $277 billion in domestic profits and paid their executives $9.5 billion."
  • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
    313·
    3 months ago

    The duopoly has created the environment over the last 50 years so that these companies do not pay taxes. Calling them out on it when they are the ones directly responsible for the fact that they pay no taxes is political theater

    • beanlink@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      Your aren’t wrong in calling out the duopoly disfunction. However you can’t ignore they also are partially to blame for this problem and are fully taking advantage of the situation.

      • EmpireInDecay@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12·
        3 months ago

        They’re the ones that wrote the laws for the legislators to pass these tax benefits in their favor.