Corporate Tax Cuts

The Most Powerful Company You've Never Heard of: Meet CME Group

Elizabeth Parisian | Posted 05.04.2012

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Given both its immense power and its history, we would be wise to keep an eye on CME Group. There has never been a better time to stand up to this powerful company and demand that it give our money back.

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The Corporations That Make Money Off Taxes

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.09.2012

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Instead of giving money to the government, it turns out more than a few U.S. companies are actually making money off their income taxes. In a recen...

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Corporate Tax Rate Hits Ten-Year Low

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.05.2012

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Nobody likes tax time. But for many companies, that annual burden is getting a lot lighter. Corporations are enjoying not only record profits, but ...

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Who Loses Big In Obama's Tax Plan?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Every one of the dozens of corporate tax loopholes and subsidies that President Barack Obama announced this week he'd like to expunge ha...

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OOPS: Romney Wrongly Claims Obama Raised Corporate Tax Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.25.2012

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The only problem with Mitt Romney's fact check of President Barack Obama after his State of the Union address was that the Republican presidential can...

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David Cay Johnston: A Corporate Tax Code For A Different Century

Reuters | Posted 03.15.2012

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(Repeating for wider distribution.) NEW YORK, Jan 13 (David Cay Johnston, Reuters) - Big business is lobbying for a major cut in the corpora...

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Occupy Repatriation: No Trillion Dollar Tax Break Without Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

Brent Budowsky | Posted 12.13.2011

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A tax holiday for massive repatriation without any jobs requirement would be a massive bonus rewarding American companies for exporting American jobs and outsourcing American prosperity.

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Bush Tax Break For Overseas Corporations Was Costly Failure

Posted 12.11.2011

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(Reuters) - Congress should not endorse another big tax break for overseas corporate profits because the last one in 2004-2005 was a costly failur...

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Obama Calls For Corporate Tax Cuts, But Paying For Them Is The Hard Part

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Barack Obama called on Congress to lower corporate tax rates in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, suggesting the measures could ...

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Pelosi Open To Cutting The Corporate Tax Rate

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she is open to cutting the corporate tax rate. In a taped interview with the NewsHour's Judy Woodruff...

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How Government Spending Stimulates Private Investment

Rep. Charles A. Gonzalez | Posted 05.25.2011

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To get through these hard times, we need to work together, every one of us, as a country, and this legislation is a solid foundation on which we can build.

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Stimulus Includes Tax Cuts That Obama Economists Panned As Ineffective

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 05.25.2011

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At least $23.8 billion in corporate tax breaks have been included in the $825 billion economic recovery package in order to win backing from key busin...

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The Great Corporate Tax Heist

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 05.25.2011

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Remember the old Steve Martin routine on how to make a million dollars and not pay taxes: "First, make a million dollars... Second, don't pay taxes." Turns out Martin's joke is standard operating procedure for corporations in the US.

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