A Choice For Corporate America: Are You With America Or The Cayman Islands
When the greed, recklessness, and illegal behavior on Wall Street drove this country into the deepest recession since the 1930s, the largest financial institutions in the United States took every advantage of being American. They just loved their country - and the willingness of the American people to provide them with the largest bailout in world history. In 2008, Congress approved a $700 billion gift to Wall Street. Another $16 trillion in virtually zero interest loans and other financial assistance came from the Federal Reserve. America. What a great country.
But just two years later, as soon as these giant financial institutions started making record-breaking profits again, they suddenly lost their love for their native country. At a time when the nation was suffering from a huge deficit, largely created by the recession that Wall Street caused, the major financial institutions did everything they could to avoid paying American taxes by establishing shell corporations in the Cayman Islands and other tax havens.
But who allows them to do it? The U.S. Government and its corporate tax codes, brought to you by the U.S. Congress.
ReplyDelete258-Exactly, people try to blame the companies...who are doing simply what is allowed and best for their shareholders.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats and their ridiculous social spending for those that refuse to work are the biggest problem. Tax someone too much and they will leave.
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