Working Life

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Burger King’s tax inversion strategy–you know, the clever tax dodge strategy that’s all the rage among the corporate elite because it funnels hundreds of billions of dollars overseas and outside the reach of the IRS. Well, that apparently isn’t the half of it. Burger King has a two-pronged approach to screwing the country–at the waistline and at the bottom line.

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Before I rip Burger King a new one, a moment of full disclosure: I haven’t walked into one of those joints in I dunno 25 years. So, maybe it’s worth the whatever it costs now to choke down and swallow that stuff. But, know this: every dollar you put into that place now is basically a contribution to yet another tax dodge–theft from the public’s right to have a decent society.

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