Big Business Loves Taxes (The Taxes We Pay)
Halliburton & Bechtel cash in on war paid for with taxes.
Taxpayers paying for the friendly skies as well
5/14/03: Big business hates taxes? Don’t believe it. They loves taxes that you pay so the government can give them loans, nifty contracts to rebuild countries we destroyed and even pay for an army to protect their interests. The only taxes they don’t want to pay are their own,
The airline industry is full of corporate whiners who want the government to bail them out of the hole they dug for themselves even as they demand that the FAA roll over and play dead when it comes to consumer safety.
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VP Dickless Cheney (sic) assures the nation that he had nothing to do with Halliburton’s recent acquisition of key government contracts in Iraq. |
Halliburton helped to buy their CEO, Dickless Cheney, a Vice-Presidency, and then, not satisfied to be second in command, they moved their incorporation offshore. What did they get for their efforts? A new contract with the Pentagon with no limit on cost-overruns (just after getting spanked for running up costs on their last contract) and complete control over Iraq’s oil. How much did they pay in taxes? They earned a ninety million dollar tax refund. So who pays for their lucrative Pentagon and oil contracts? Stand in front of a mirror and point. Sure, President George Bush Lite promised you a tax cut too. And how much will you get back when it's all over. By his own estimate (based on loose economic projections and wishful thinking) about five hundred dollars. Of course, you have to have an income to save that much in taxes, which many of us no longer have. I personally will save enough from my income taxes to buy half a Snickers bar. Bush promises small businesses a break of two thousand dollars a year to employ me with. So assuming my local small business person actually spends that two thousand to employ me rather than spending it to market his firm, I will be employed for a three-weeks at my former salary. |
