Taxes and Gravity

Pat Bagley, Cagle Cartoons, Salt Lake Tribune May 30, 2013 Dig deeper

How Big Corporations Are Unpatriotic

By Ralph Nader Mar 28, 2013 Many giant profitable U.S. corporations are increasingly abandoning America while draining it at the same time. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

American Corporations Dodge Billions in Taxes

Staff / Truthdig Apr 15, 2012 You work hard. You pay taxes. But 26 corporations don’t -- or at least they didn’t between 2008 and 2011. General Electric, Boeing and Verizon were among the major companies that together enjoyed more than $78 billion in tax subsidies over the last four years, according to a report by Citizens for Tax Justice. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Whose Corporations? Our Corporations!

By Ken Jacobsen, AlterNet Apr 7, 2012 Historically, corporations were understood to be responsible to a complex web of constituencies, including employees, communities, society at large, suppliers, and shareholders. But in the era of deregulation, the interests of shareholders began to trump all the others. How can we get corporations to recognize their responsibilities beyond this narrow focus?How can we get corporations to recognize their responsibilities to society, rather than just shareholders? Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

For Some Big Firms, CEO Pay Tops Tax Bill

Staff / Truthdig Aug 31, 2011 Compensation for 25 of the highest-paid U.S. CEOs exceeded the amount their corporations paid in taxes in 2010, according to a study published by a Washington think tank Wednesday. (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The New Corporate World Order

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Apr 20, 2011 Of course it will be argued that multinational corporations have the right to arrange their businesses as they see fit in order to maximize profit. But if that is the case, do beleaguered American taxpayers have to foot the bill?Big government is big precisely because it is so active in so many costly ways in serving the interests of our biggest corporations. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Obama’s Fatal Addiction

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Mar 30, 2011 Maximizing corporate profits at taxpayers' expense is what top CEOs are good at, and after all it was Jeffrey Immelt who presided over GE when it got so heavily into the subprime mortgage business that it needed a government bailout to avoid bankruptcy. This was before Obama made him a trusted adviser.Overdrive, with CEOs like GE's Jeffrey Immelt shifting the gears, is what brought us so close to the brink. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Obama Makes Nice with Business Bigwigs

Staff / Truthdig Dec 16, 2010 Bill Clinton and now big business -- all in a week's work for President Obama in his ambitious push to improve relations with parties with whom he'd at least appeared to be at odds since he took office. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

There’s Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jul 14, 2010 The flight from reason that now marks American public discourse came home for me last Friday when I found myself on public radio debating whether Barack Obama is anti-business. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Comcast Acquires NBC

Staff / Truthdig Dec 3, 2009 In a deal that will dramatically affect both the story lines on NBC's "30 Rock" as well as the future of media conglomeration, Comcast, the country's biggest cable provider, has acquired NBC Universal from General Electric for an estimated $30 billion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )