{"id":13318,"date":"2014-07-27T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T07:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=13318"},"modified":"2014-07-27T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T07:20:08","slug":"how-republicorp-is-ducking-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/how-republicorp-is-ducking-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"How RepubliCorp Is Ducking Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Corporations are taking advantage of a tax loophole that Republicans created to kelp them avoid paying their fair share of taxes.&#160; Democrats have made several attempts to close that loophole, and of course Republicans blocked them.&#160; Barack Obama and one of America\u2019s national treasures are calling them out on it.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0727CorporateInversion\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0727CorporateInversion\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/0727CorporateInversion.jpg\" width=\"360\" align=\"left\" height=\"216\" \/>U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday hammered U.S. companies that avoid federal taxes by shifting their tax domiciles overseas in deals known as &quot;inversions&quot; and called on Congress to pass a bill to end the practice.<\/p>\n<p>During remarks to a rowdy crowd at the Los Angeles Technical College, Obama promoted what he called &quot;economic patriotism&quot; and made clear he believed the companies that were engaging in such practices were not being patriotic. The president is in California on a three-day fund-raising swing for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>So-called inversion deals occur when a U.S. company acquires or sets up a foreign company, then moves its U.S. tax domicile to the foreign company and its lower-tax home country.<\/p>\n<p>Nine inversion deals have been reached this year by companies ranging from banana distributor Chiquita Brands International Inc to drugmaker AbbVie Inc, and more are under consideration. The transactions are setting a record pace since the first inversion was carried out 32 years ago\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/chi-obama-tax-loophole-inversions-20140724,0,7958782.story\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationofchange.org\/walgreens-inversion-perversion-another-corporate-tax-loophole-1404913500\" target=\"_blank\">Nation of Change<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I do disagree with Obama on one point.&#160; There is only on corporate emotion.&#160; It is not patriotism.&#160; It is greed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ed Schultz interviewed our national treasure on this issue and on the Republican attempt to stall VA funding.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5raz-5HnpyQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">According to the article, Republicans say they support closing the Inversion Loophole, but only as part of restructuring the tax code.&#160; That\u2019s RepubliSpeak for raising your taxes and giving massive tax cuts to billionaires and giant corporations.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporations are taking advantage of a tax loophole that Republicans created to kelp them avoid paying their fair share of taxes.&#160; Democrats have made several attempts to close that loophole, and of course Republicans blocked them.&#160; Barack Obama and one of America\u2019s national treasures are calling them out on it. U.S. President Barack Obama on <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/how-republicorp-is-ducking-taxes\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}