Working Life

While most progressive activists and politically obsessed people were dissecting the elections endlessly yesterday (me, I made chicken and audouille gumbo), some pretty damn interesting stuff dropped courtesy of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists. Bottom line: we’re being robbed every day and the price tag is huge.

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Well, sure, it’s fine of the Treasury does *something* to stop tax inversions. But, that just isn’t enough. I know, I’m so naive–but it’s Congress that has to act.

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Another day brings yet another company scamming the taxpayer with a tax inversion gimmick.

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Ok, so, most sane people don’t buy into the idiotic idea that corporations should have the same standing as people. But, right now, thanks to a majority of morons on the Supreme Court, that’s the law. So, fine, then, while we try to close the loopholes on tax inversions, let’s apply a similar standard: the […]

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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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It isn’t complicated and it’s not rocket science. The thievery underway in the form of corporate tax inversions can be stopped if there was a will to do so. It’s a problem with three easy-to-describe pieces–and some pretty straightforward solutions. The issue is: does the White House, beyond an election-year messaging stunt, really want to stop the robbery of the American taxpayer?

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I couldn’t help the “EXPOSED” start to the headline because, actually, this is no surprise. Citizens for Tax Justice has been making this case for a very long time (including here, just as one example). But, here’s another piece of evidence to try to undo that hard-wired, decades-long rhetorical nonsense about corporate taxes being too high in the U.S.

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Corporate tax inversions are getting a lot of ink now (thanks largely to the heavy lifting done by the Levin brothers–Carl in the Senate, Sander in the House, and Citizens for Tax Justice…not, respectfully, by the celebrity of the moment). The president has even spoken out a bit, though we will see whether that’s just mid-term elections political rhetoric. But, a related move is now on the agenda and I love the name: No Federal Contracts for Corporate Deserters Act.

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Under the heading of “this is not surprising”, I’d put this news: bank CEOs are playing a central role in moving companies overseas–or, actually, just reincorporating them to dodge taxes. And all for the usual reason: nice fat bank fees that help underwrite the pay packages of Jamie Dimon and his gang–the same gang that wrecked the economy, but still have their jobs.

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