“I support Obama on this these lib gentry and corporate “conservatives” deserve to be on the other side of this unconstitutional illegal action. “
Support Obama in raising taxes? Uh no. Corporations don’t pay taxes and just pass them on people that buy their products. Surely you understand that, right? Gentry? This sort of class warfare, rich-bashing and anti-corporate crap has no place at Free Republic.
Is that why they scream so hard when someone raises their taxes? Is that why they move to low tax states? Why did wealthy Republicans go from being supporters of big government 100 years ago and become supports of small government in the 20’s? You don't think that had something to do with the initiation of the income tax do you? Some of it gets passed through but they pay a lot of it. Why do you think we never heard of big government conservatives 30 years ago? You don't think it had anything to do with their taxes being lowered do you?
Sorry but with the support of amnesty the corporate Conservatives as far as am concerned they can just pay their freaking taxes. Not because they are rich but because they feckless, treacherous duplicitous and just plain deserve to pay them for stabbing us in the back. I used to agree with you recently, but not any more.
I think the strongest arguments he may use will be the fact that some corporations manage to fix their books so that they pay no taxes whatsoever (sort of like Greece?).
A second argument he has is the extremely high salaries that CEOs and other high executives earn. Personally I was outraged when my GE stock was dropping from $50 to $5 a share, and then I saw that the top seven executive were paid from $11 to $22 million a year during and after that whole debacle. Stockholders of Goldman Sachs were similarly outraged in 2008 (remember the bank failures and economic crash of 2007), when they learned the top 3 executives each earned over $65 million. In fact they were so angry that 43% of them voted for a Proposal for a Stockholders’ Advisory on Executive Compensation. The following year the CEO’s salary had dropped to a mere $25 million and after that it became very hard to find that information. Check out Forbes CEO Compensation at Google to see more about just how outrageous CEO salaries have become.