On 22/08/2011 4:13 PM, X ~ Man wrote:
1) Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009. Exxon not only paid
no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from
the IRS, according to its SEC filings.

2) Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last
year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout
from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.

3) Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in
profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the
IRS.

4) Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it
made $10 billion in profits in 2009.

5) Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to
build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last
year.

6) Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion
in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS
and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break
from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction.

7) Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes
even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost
$800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department.

8) Citigroup last year made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no
federal income taxes. It received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the
Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury.

9) ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States,
made $16 billion in profits from 2007 through 2009, but received $451
million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.

10) Over the past five years, Carnival Cruise Lines made more than $11
billion in profits, but its federal income tax rate during those years
was just 1.1 percent.

From a news release from U.S. Sen Bernie Sanders, of Vermont.

Funny, you can't tax companies on money they don't make. But you have
mixed in companies that make no money, bailouts and Obama's "hidden
corruption" that the administration has black holed moneys no one knows
where it went. Maybe ask Obama why he does not disclose where all the
money went?

But agree, bailouts, corruption....get rid of it all. While Bush
started it, Obama is bankrupting the USA with it. Time to call it
CORRUPTION and get rid of Obama.

As for Obama excuses, remember he had 2 years of a majority democrat
senate and congress. Fact is Obama is all mouth loaded with excuses but
the buffoon can't walk the walk. Just a jive talking corrupt bull****er.

Best part, the poor like you can begin to pay you fair share as oil/gas
prices at the pump go up. Time to shake off the freeloaders.
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We have the most expensive governments no one can afford.
And wonder why the economy is doing so poorly?