Defense industry contractors are lobbying for the cyber security bill in Congress that would expand the government's ability to access information about online activity.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/154977/revealed:_cispa_--_internet_spying_law_--_pushed_by_for-profit_spy_lobby/
Sunday, April 15, 2012
10 Big Companies That Pay No Taxes (and Their Favorite Politicians)
Between 2008 and 2011, 26 major American corporations paid no net federal income taxes despite bringing in billions in profits, according to a new report from the nonprofit research group Citizens for Tax Justice. CTJ calculates that if the companies had paid the full 35 percent corporate tax rate, they would have put more than $78 billion into government coffers.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04/top-tax-dodging-companies-politicians
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2012/04/top-tax-dodging-companies-politicians
Romney to welfare mothers: ‘You need to go to work’
Republicans have spent the last week attacking President Barack Obama after a Democratic CNN contributor said that Ann Romney, who is the mother of five, had “never worked,” but it turns out that presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney has also said mothers on welfare “need to go to work.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/15/romney-to-welfare-mothers-you-need-to-go-to-work/
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/15/romney-to-welfare-mothers-you-need-to-go-to-work/
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Swiss Banks To Hand Over Staff Names In U.S. Tax Row
(Reuters) - Switzerland will allow banks to hand over the names of any employees and other third parties who helped wealthy Americans evade taxes to U.S. prosecutors, a Swiss newspaper reported on Saturday.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/14/us-swiss-tax-us-idUSBRE83D05H20120414
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/14/us-swiss-tax-us-idUSBRE83D05H20120414
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