Taxation is Salvation?
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I had always thought it was a parody site. So the writers at Salon are being serious with the shit they write?
Stupid. The US has the largest defense budget in the world, more than $700 billion, and the only problem that Paul Buchheit can see is that we aren't paying enough tax?
Umm, did you forget that for whatever number of years they were the ones paying your guy Glenn Greenwald to write columns?
Scary how much he's grown as a writer, isn't it? To think he used to grace the same pages as the likes of Joan Walsh is almost comical.
I quickly skimmed over the articles but there is many things wrong with it. For example they say that corporations stashed profits overseas, which implies that they made money in the united states but moved it overseas, the relatity is that income earned overseas isn't taxable until its brought stateside. Also the United States is the only country to tax corporations on income earned outside the country. Also corporations don't pay taxes, the consumers of their products do, raising taxes on corporations will mean that they will just pass the increase off to consumers.
I don't read Salon these days but they've done some very good reporting in the past. They were ahead of the parade on more than a few important stories in the late 90s and early 2000s during the Clintonista/Bush crime family days. I'm guessing you haven't been reading Salon long enough to have an informed perspective on it, and you're also partisan, but for the record:
The rigged missile defense test - Salon.com
The real Henry Hyde scandal - Salon.com
When neighbors attack! - Salon.com
Inside Nader’s stock portfolio - Salon.com
The Israeli “art student” mystery - Salon.com
Bush’s night of the long knives - Salon.com
Bush Inc. - Salon.com
Insult to injury - Salon.com
Incalculable pain - Salon.com
Military injustice - Salon.com
