The "Fix the Debt" lobby group called a recent IPS report "lies and mudslinging." But rather than attacking IPS research, the group may want to focus on resolving their own inconsistencies.
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Tax havens could be something that the right and left agree on in Congress. Meanwhile U.S. multinational corporations continue to lobby for bigger, better tax haven loopholes.
The swashbuckling pirates of olde amassed private fortunes by raiding ships and stealing them. Once they captured a ship, they would replace its flag — which represented one of the world's sovereign nations — with the Jolly Roger. By flying the skull and crossbones, pirates proclaimed that they were out for their own benefit and theirs alone.
A new Institute for Policy Studies report reveals the massive tax windfalls that members of the dubious, CEO-backed “Fix the Debt” campaign stand to gain from their proposed solutions to the nation’s fiscal challenges.
As our dust-up with North Korea stumbles inexorably onward, the U.S. media is tearing its hair out over how any sovereign nation could possibly act so irrationally. Well, how about looking in the mirror?
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It's Time Corporations Flew Old Glory Instead of the Jolly Roger
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