Dems Name and Shame Companies Paying Executives More Than They Pay in Federal Taxes | Common Dreams
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"In the first five years following the 2017 giveaway, 35 companies raked in $277 billion in domestic profits and paid their executives $9.5 billion."
  • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world
    65·
    2 months ago

    The fact that there are companies that pay the executives more than they pay taxes is amazing. They shouldn’t just name and shame, they should regulate

  • xenomor@lemmy.world
    581·
    2 months ago

    Netflix, Ford, Tesla, T-Mobile, AIG, NextEra, Darden, MetLife, Duke Energy, First Energy, DISH, Principal Financial, American Electrical Power, Kinder Morgan, Dominion, Oneok, Williams, Xcel Energy, NRG Energy, Salesforce, DTE Energy, Ameren, Sempra Energy, U.S. Steel, Entergy, AmerisourceBergen, PPL, CMS Energy, Evergy, Voya Financial, Atmos Energy, Alliant Energy, Match Group, UGI, Agilent Tech

  • frazw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 months ago

    The problem with conservatism though is that their voters will think this is a good thing. Taxes are bad full stop, so these companies are clever by lowering their tax bill. They don’t see that the salaries are obscene. Then they complain about public services and infrastructure being bad.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 months ago

      A consistent conservative is also against companies of this size existing. In that case they’d be right.

      Everything makes sense only in its own particular situation. Nothing is universally applicable. No, I don’t like paradoxical statements.

      But still things are right when they are right and wrong when they are wrong.

      You can see Republican voters applying their rule of thumb in the wrong place. Democrats do that too with theirs.

      Sometimes there’s no bright future and we should just brace for impact.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    16·
    2 months ago

    If they COULDNT do this they would just take their Jobs to OTHER COUNTRIES and then Mom And Pop shops would have to Open Up to fill in the Gap and that’s HORRIBLE!