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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:09 PM Original message |
Tonight on 60 Minutes: Tax havens: Do companies pay their fair share? |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. Thanks for the heads-up! |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:14 PM Response to Original message |
2. This is news to me |
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PBass (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. It bears repeating often, especially in the mainstream media |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:09 PM Response to Reply #5 |
14. Oh I agree 100% |
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Bluzmann57 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
3. They're investigating that? |
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xchrom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:21 PM Response to Original message |
4. Better late than never? Nt |
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krkaufman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
6. Ok, did anyone else watch this segment? |
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Electric Monk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Yes, that's what I got out of it as well. We must think of those poor corporations! |
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lz1122 (29 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 08:30 PM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Exactly same position as you |
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chelsea0011 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:47 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. Leslie Stahl glossed over the lowering of the rate in 2005 without mentioning |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. You nailed it! A sob story for the obscene rich companies. |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:59 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. That was my reaction too. It was a threat: lower our taxes to 5% or we'll leave forever and ever. |
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highplainsdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 09:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
24. My reaction, too. I was disgusted. As for the talk of Ireland - those companies don't pay the full |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 06:39 AM Response to Reply #6 |
25. You have it correct. |
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chelsea0011 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. Cisco's CEO cries poverty and says he has to have companies in Ireland |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 06:43 AM Response to Reply #7 |
26. Excellent point! |
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high density (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
10. This was a fucking joke of a report |
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GCP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:08 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. Agreed |
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spanone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. cbs is a huge CORPORATION |
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JHB (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:13 PM Response to Original message |
15. Tell you what. Why don't you just bring the money home... |
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bluestate10 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:53 PM Response to Reply #15 |
19. OR. |
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Enthusiast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 06:46 AM Response to Reply #19 |
27. "Tell me who is the enemy?" |
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Bombero1956 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:44 PM Response to Original message |
17. more like this |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
18. The EU is telling Ireland it must raise PERSONAL income taxes |
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indypaul (896 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
20. Last I heard Ireland and Switzerland were not fighting |
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RKP5637 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 08:10 PM Response to Original message |
21. Thanks for the heads up! Watched it, it was like watching a lobbying effort to lower corp. taxes and |
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U4ikLefty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-27-11 09:21 PM Response to Original message |
23. The used the common trickery of calling out the TAX RATE and not |
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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
28. i missed 60 minutes last night and planned to watch it on youtube, |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-28-11 04:27 PM Response to Original message |
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