Stupid stupid liberals ship another American gem offshore!!

[nuhuh]

Stupid, stupid, Republicans could have fixed this

"The U.S. Treasury, concerned about losing billions in tax revenue, has been taking steps to limit the benefits of tax inversion deals, but it admitted last week that it would take legislation from Congress to stop such moves." Pfizer to buy Allergan in $160 billion deal

Where is that legislation from our Republican led congress anyway?

 

[g5000]

Pfizer drug is gone because the liberals are far too stupid to eliminate the corporate tax that our corporations must avoid by moving offshore. How can our country survive when liberals are involved in making policy? Why not make liberalism illegal as our Constitution intended?

Can you show us where the liberals raised the corporate tax after taking over Congress in 2007 or after Bush left?

Oh, wait. The corporate tax rates have been the same since 1994.

Hmmm. Didn't the GOP control all three branches of government for a while there?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

No, it's not. It's as much or as little government as the People want.

good so we could have a Nazi or Soviet size govt and it would not be unconstitutional?? This is how stupid a liberal is!!

 

[sealybobo]

Pfizer drug is gone because the liberals are far too stupid to eliminate the corporate tax that our corporations must avoid by moving offshore. How can our country survive when liberals are involved in making policy? Why not make liberalism illegal as our Constitution intended?

poor ignorant dolt....

you really shouldn't be calling anyone else stupid.

not when you don't have two synapses to rub together.

Oh look. Little brain dead poseur chiming in with the deepest analysis she can muster.
Jillian is so dumb she thinks "pfizer" is a new kind of cola.

If you don't agree or get Jillian that must make you a right wing jack off.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

You should read it. It's tiny government there too.

and???????

And what?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Stupid, stupid, Republicans could have fixed this

"The U.S. Treasury, concerned about losing billions in tax revenue, has been taking steps to limit the benefits of tax inversion deals, but it admitted last week that it would take legislation from Congress to stop such moves." Pfizer to buy Allergan in $160 billion deal

Where is that legislation from our Republican led congress anyway?

more importantly why not eliminate the corporate tax so corps come flooding in with millions of jobs and huge upward pressure on wages?

 

[sealybobo]

Pfizer drug is gone because the liberals are far too stupid to eliminate the corporate tax that our corporations must avoid by moving offshore. How can our country survive when liberals are involved in making policy? Why not make liberalism illegal as our Constitution intended?

Can you show us where the liberals raised the corporate tax after taking over Congress in 2007 or after Bush left?

Oh, wait. The corporate tax rates have been the same since 1994.

Hmmm. Didn't the GOP control all three branches of government for a while there?

As my colleague Larry Mishel wrote in a post last week, “Fighting to preserve social insurance (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) benefits that the broad middle class depends on and making the public investments we need for growth and equity requires winning the battle over more revenues in the budget negotiations ahead.” This task will prove far more difficult now that the Bush-era income tax rate cuts have been made permanent for all taxpayers earning less than $400,000 ($450,000 for joint filers), making them a permanent part of the legislative landscape moving forward.

The Bush tax cuts, passed in 2001 and 2003, were designed to sunset after 2010 so they could pass Congress through the reconciliation process. They were extended by President Obama through 2012 so as to not raise taxes during the recession/weak recovery; additionally, in exchange for extending them two years, Obama was able to negotiate the payroll tax holiday and the extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC).

The most recent extension of these cuts has allowed conservative members of Congress (and others, like Grover Norquist) to claim victory on these tax cuts, which briefly expired on Dec. 31, 2012, only to be reinstated almost in full. Conservative representative Dave Camp (R-Mich.) summed up the situation by saying, “After more than a decade of criticizing these tax cuts, Democrats are finally joining Republicans in making them permanent.”

 

[The Rabbi]

Pfizer drug is gone because the liberals are far too stupid to eliminate the corporate tax that our corporations must avoid by moving offshore. How can our country survive when liberals are involved in making policy? Why not make liberalism illegal as our Constitution intended?

Can you show us where the liberals raised the corporate tax after taking over Congress in 2007 or after Bush left?

Oh, wait. The corporate tax rates have been the same since 1994.

Hmmm. Didn't the GOP control all three branches of government for a while there?

Dolt. The rest of the world has been lowering their corporate tax rate. So ours suffer by comparison.
Moron.

 

[TNHarley]

Sop you think simply eliminating corporate tax would have those people come back?

too stupid by 1000% Ireland lowered their tax to 12% and most of the world's major corporations relocated there in whole or in part. Do you have the IQ to learn from that?

Guess what dumbfuck
Irelands gap between rich and poor is getting wider every year. Average income is lower than us/US. They rely heavily on foreign trade. Their unemployment rate was 10.5 last time i checked. Remember their economic catastrophe? Do you know what caused it? Do you have the IQ to understand that?

 

[nuhuh]

Stupid, stupid, Republicans could have fixed this

"The U.S. Treasury, concerned about losing billions in tax revenue, has been taking steps to limit the benefits of tax inversion deals, but it admitted last week that it would take legislation from Congress to stop such moves." Pfizer to buy Allergan in $160 billion deal

Where is that legislation from our Republican led congress anyway?

more importantly why not eliminate the corporate tax so corps come flooding in with millions of jobs and huge upward pressure on wages?

So where is that legislation? Republicans control government.

 

[g5000]

Pfizer drug is gone because the liberals are far too stupid to eliminate the corporate tax that our corporations must avoid by moving offshore. How can our country survive when liberals are involved in making policy? Why not make liberalism illegal as our Constitution intended?

Can you show us where the liberals raised the corporate tax after taking over Congress in 2007 or after Bush left?

Oh, wait. The corporate tax rates have been the same since 1994.

Hmmm. Didn't the GOP control all three branches of government for a while there?

As my colleague Larry Mishel wrote in a post last week, “Fighting to preserve social insurance (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) benefits that the broad middle class depends on and making the public investments we need for growth and equity requires winning the battle over more revenues in the budget negotiations ahead.” This task will prove far more difficult now that the Bush-era income tax rate cuts have been made permanent for all taxpayers earning less than $400,000 ($450,000 for joint filers), making them a permanent part of the legislative landscape moving forward.

The Bush tax cuts, passed in 2001 and 2003, were designed to sunset after 2010 so they could pass Congress through the reconciliation process. They were extended by President Obama through 2012 so as to not raise taxes during the recession/weak recovery; additionally, in exchange for extending them two years, Obama was able to negotiate the payroll tax holiday and the extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC).

The most recent extension of these cuts has allowed conservative members of Congress (and others, like Grover Norquist) to claim victory on these tax cuts, which briefly expired on Dec. 31, 2012, only to be reinstated almost in full. Conservative representative Dave Camp (R-Mich.) summed up the situation by saying, “After more than a decade of criticizing these tax cuts, Democrats are finally joining Republicans in making them permanent.”

Your post has NOTHING to do with CORPORATE tax rates.

Corporate tax rates have been unchanged since 1994.

Now where was I?

Oh, yeah.

Hmmm. Didn't the GOP control all three branches of government somewhere in that period since 1994?

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Pfizer drug is gone because the liberals are far too stupid to eliminate the corporate tax that our corporations must avoid by moving offshore. How can our country survive when liberals are involved in making policy? Why not make liberalism illegal as our Constitution intended?

Can you show us where the liberals raised the corporate tax after taking over Congress in 2007 or after Bush left?

Oh, wait. The corporate tax rates have been the same since 1994.

Hmmm. Didn't the GOP control all three branches of government for a while there?

more importantly why not eliminate the corporate tax so 1000's of corporations and million of jobs come flooding back with huge upward pressure on wages?

 

[g5000]

Sop you think simply eliminating corporate tax would have those people come back?

too stupid by 1000% Ireland lowered their tax to 12% and most of the world's major corporations relocated there in whole or in part. Do you have the IQ to learn from that?

Guess what dumbfuck
Irelands gap between rich and poor is getting wider every year. Average income is lower than us/US. They rely heavily on foreign trade. Their unemployment rate was 10.5 last time i checked. Remember their economic catastrophe? Do you know what caused it? Do you have the IQ to understand that?

I know what caused their subprime crash. It was the negroes of Ireland. Just like here.

The Black Irish...

Obama brought a lawsuit back in 1994 against a public housing complex in Cork, and that brought the whole house of cards down.

 

[bendog]

Stupid, stupid, Republicans could have fixed this

"The U.S. Treasury, concerned about losing billions in tax revenue, has been taking steps to limit the benefits of tax inversion deals, but it admitted last week that it would take legislation from Congress to stop such moves." Pfizer to buy Allergan in $160 billion deal

Where is that legislation from our Republican led congress anyway?

more importantly why not eliminate the corporate tax so corps come flooding in with millions of jobs and huge upward pressure on wages?

So where is that legislation? Republicans control government.

You don't understand. The Gop's new legislative strategy is to oppose any step that might give them part of what they want, and help the country as well, if they have to make any compromise. (-:

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

Pfizer drug is gone because the liberals are far too stupid to eliminate the corporate tax that our corporations must avoid by moving offshore. How can our country survive when liberals are involved in making policy? Why not make liberalism illegal as our Constitution intended?

Can you show us where the liberals raised the corporate tax after taking over Congress in 2007 or after Bush left?

Oh, wait. The corporate tax rates have been the same since 1994.

Hmmm. Didn't the GOP control all three branches of government for a while there?

As my colleague Larry Mishel wrote in a post last week, “Fighting to preserve social insurance (Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid) benefits that the broad middle class depends on and making the public investments we need for growth and equity requires winning the battle over more revenues in the budget negotiations ahead.” This task will prove far more difficult now that the Bush-era income tax rate cuts have been made permanent for all taxpayers earning less than $400,000 ($450,000 for joint filers), making them a permanent part of the legislative landscape moving forward.

The Bush tax cuts, passed in 2001 and 2003, were designed to sunset after 2010 so they could pass Congress through the reconciliation process. They were extended by President Obama through 2012 so as to not raise taxes during the recession/weak recovery; additionally, in exchange for extending them two years, Obama was able to negotiate the payroll tax holiday and the extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC).

The most recent extension of these cuts has allowed conservative members of Congress (and others, like Grover Norquist) to claim victory on these tax cuts, which briefly expired on Dec. 31, 2012, only to be reinstated almost in full. Conservative representative Dave Camp (R-Mich.) summed up the situation by saying, “After more than a decade of criticizing these tax cuts, Democrats are finally joining Republicans in making them permanent.”

Your post has NOTING to do with CORPORATE tax rates.

Corporate tax rates have been unchanged since 1994.

American corporations face a 40% tax rate which is highest in world!!

 

[Pogo]

Dummy OP doesn't know what liberalism is

Or what drug dealers are.

Has be brought up "Stalin" yet? Or Tom Jefferson founding the Republican Party 28 years after his own death?

 

[Wry Catcher]

Put a 20% tariff on Pfizer imports. Problem solved.

Take away their patents and sell them to the highest bidder.

 

[EdwardBaiamonte]

So where is that legislation? Republicans control government.

dear stupid, who cares, Obama would veto- he apparently likes driving the hated corps out!!

 

[g5000]

Pfizer drug is gone because the liberals are far too stupid to eliminate the corporate tax that our corporations must avoid by moving offshore. How can our country survive when liberals are involved in making policy? Why not make liberalism illegal as our Constitution intended?

Can you show us where the liberals raised the corporate tax after taking over Congress in 2007 or after Bush left?

Oh, wait. The corporate tax rates have been the same since 1994.

Hmmm. Didn't the GOP control all three branches of government for a while there?

more importantly why not eliminate the corporate tax so 1000's of corporations and million of jobs come flooding back with huge upward pressure on wages?

Why didn't the Republicans do that when they had all the reins of power?

Because they talk the talk but don't walk the walk. They put on good theater for the rubes, though. Got you all blaming "the liberals". BWA-HA-HA-HA!

 

[sealybobo]

Pfizer drug is gone because the liberals are far too stupid to eliminate the corporate tax that our corporations must avoid by moving offshore. How can our country survive when liberals are involved in making policy? Why not make liberalism illegal as our Constitution intended?

Can you show us where the liberals raised the corporate tax after taking over Congress in 2007 or after Bush left?

Oh, wait. The corporate tax rates have been the same since 1994.

Hmmm. Didn't the GOP control all three branches of government for a while there?

more importantly why not eliminate the corporate tax so 1000's of corporations and million of jobs come flooding back with huge upward pressure on wages?

Ha fucking ha!

When I say that it's time to make corporations pay their fair share, you're probably thinking taxes. But, if corporations paid back their full debt to society, they'd be paying each of us about $10,000 bucks a year.

That figure comes from Paul Buchheit over at Alternet, and he says, “That estimate is based on facts, not the conservative-style emotion that might deny the responsibility for any debt to the American people.”

Using data from the National Science Foundation, Paul calculated that about half of that yearly stipend would be our return for all the public money invested in research. About 30 percent of all development, applied, and basic research is paid for by the tax payers, and thirty percent of $2 trillion in annual corporate profit works out to $5,000 bucks a year for each of us.

Another two grand would be payment for pollution and other disaster relief costs paid for by John Q. Taxpayer, and it would reimburse the American public for things like drilling for oil on public lands and cleaning up toxic chemical spills. In addition to the $2 trillion dollars stashed in offshore tax havens, corporations rake in tons of cash in direct and indirect subsidies.

So, the remaining $3,000 dollars would reimburse us for corporate welfare and tax dodging, like overseas tax havens and government subsidies to giant, corporate industries.

When we add all that up, it comes to $10,000 dollars per person, per year – and it's a pretty “small-c” conservative estimate. That's the real price of corporate power in the U.S., and that's a cost being paid by the American public.

Corporations used to return these public investments in the form of larger paychecks and pensions and benefits. Today, they simply buy back their own stocks and call workers greedy for demanding a living wage.

We give them the opportunity to do business in our great nation, so if the corporations won't pay up the way they used to, perhaps it's time they simply cut each of us a $10,000 dollar check. - See more at: The Real Cost of Corporate Power...