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Showing posts with label big damned deal. Show all posts
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Monday, September 2, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Big Illegal Alien Tax Derp
A friend sent me the link to this vid. It's so full of po' white angst and big scary numbers.
My comment:
Without condoning any kind of tax fraud or other crime, I have to say I'm a lot less troubled about this money going to [what I assume to be] poor people in whatever country than I am about the even greater number of billions of dollars handed LEGALLY as tax rebates to filthy-rich, resource-polluting trans-national mega-corporations in the petroleum industry, and the huge number of other highly profitable corporations that pay little tax, or none at all - in part because of off-shore tax havens.
In all seriousness, 4.2 billion is a big scary number, but if you look at the problems that ought to be addressed by the U.S. in priority order, this probably wouldn't make the top 100.
And I have to suspect that the pasty-faced, oh-so-patriotic southern Indiana news hawks who put this together are more than a little bit influenced by the brownish skin of those who benefit from this situation. Sorry, that's just ugly reality. Meanwhile, too-big-to-fail lily-white bankers on Wall Street are robbing us blind every day.
When's the last time you saw a 6 minute news report video on that subject?
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My comment:
Without condoning any kind of tax fraud or other crime, I have to say I'm a lot less troubled about this money going to [what I assume to be] poor people in whatever country than I am about the even greater number of billions of dollars handed LEGALLY as tax rebates to filthy-rich, resource-polluting trans-national mega-corporations in the petroleum industry, and the huge number of other highly profitable corporations that pay little tax, or none at all - in part because of off-shore tax havens.
In all seriousness, 4.2 billion is a big scary number, but if you look at the problems that ought to be addressed by the U.S. in priority order, this probably wouldn't make the top 100.
And I have to suspect that the pasty-faced, oh-so-patriotic southern Indiana news hawks who put this together are more than a little bit influenced by the brownish skin of those who benefit from this situation. Sorry, that's just ugly reality. Meanwhile, too-big-to-fail lily-white bankers on Wall Street are robbing us blind every day.
When's the last time you saw a 6 minute news report video on that subject?
.
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