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To: expat_panama

Larry is an idiot. Companies like GE, Microsoft, and Google aren’t paying any taxes now.
Bernie Sanders is right about one thing. Banks are bigger now than they were before the bailouts. Larry wants the free money flowing and to hell with what’s right.


3 posted on 02/02/2016 4:07:47 AM PST by lucky american (Progressives are attacking our rights and y'all will sit there and take it.)
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To: lucky american

Most of the measures he proposes seem to be aimed at small and mid-sized businesses, which sure do pay a hell of lot of money in taxes.


4 posted on 02/02/2016 4:14:14 AM PST by Alberta's Child (My mama said: "To get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom.")
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To: lucky american
Companies like GE, Microsoft, and Google aren’t paying any taxes now.

This is a lie. Just because something's been repeated over and over (by the likes of Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton and others) doesn't make it true.

15 posted on 02/02/2016 5:01:31 AM PST by Auntie Mame (Fear not tomorrow. God is already there.)
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To: lucky american
GE, Microsoft, and Google aren't paying any taxes now.

Wow, people sure do make up terrible things about businesses these days.  Sure, the rest of us just check the annual report of say, Microsoft and find on page 31--

Our effective tax rate for fiscal years 2015 and 2014 was approximately 34% and 21%, respectively. The fiscal year

--but some freepers just hate business so much they'll see what they want and ignore the rest.

17 posted on 02/02/2016 5:02:50 AM PST by expat_panama
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To: lucky american

What are you talking about? You’re happy choking economic growth in the country?


31 posted on 02/02/2016 2:41:52 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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