Mahar- I for one am getting a little tired of helping highly profitable companies pay their workers.

[Playinghardball]

[JaneyVee]

1. Especially corporations I don't even support.

[Thinkingabout]

2. K & R

If the American tax payers do not get to share in the profit then we should not have to give entitlements to corporations such as McDonald's, Walmart, Walgreen's or any company which pays minimal wages and it entitles their employees to get food stamps and other subsidies. This is one of my pet peeves, it turns into corporate welfare. You don't hear the RW bunch pointing out these companies which causes the problem.

[Squinch]

3. Thank God this concept is getting out there into the mainstream. It took long enough.

[bluestateguy]

4. That line of argument makes perfect sense, but it won't work on them

They'll just say that the minimum wage should be low AND there should be no social programs either.

[aggiesal]

5. I thought Bill Maher said the following . . .

The last part of the sentence went something like

`. . . I for one am getting tired of helping BILLION dollar corporations SUBSIDIZE there workers wages . . .`

I destinctly remember him using the Billion dollar and subsidize references.

[RichGirl]

7. I heard it too....

But if they want republicans to understand it they have to dumb it down. Repubs would be scratching their heads wondering what "subsidize" means.

[RichGirl]

6. I'm tempted to walk into Walmart....

And go tell the manager...I'll be taking Betty the cashier at aisle 5 home for a few hours to watch my kids...since I help pay her wages I should get a few of her hours.

[Ace Acme]

8. I asked a winger why the USA needs to maintain 700 military bases around the world.

He said it was to provide security so our multi-national corporations could do business.

I said, why should the taxpayers subsidize the security needs of the corporations? Shouldn't they pay the costs of their own security?

He thought about it for a minute, and said he'd have to get back to me on that.

[Enthusiast]

9. Especially in light of the fact that most of those corporations don't pay taxes.

Tell him that.

[Ace Acme]

10. Apple Computer being a case in point.

They've got between $100 billion and $140 billion in cash stashed overseas.

They created a dummy Irish corporation that owns the rights to all the patents. So all the profits get paid as license fees to this dummy corporation, and then there are no profits in the USA to be taxed.

"Hollywood accounting" has been legendary for years. They arrange things so all the revenues go out for contracts and fees, and that way no movie ever makes a profit to generate taxes.

[dickthegrouch]

11. And the Walton family that owns Walmart

Have close to $100 Billion in share capital between the four of them.
They could afford to pay every single worker 50,000 a year minimum and not even feel a dent.