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Thom's blog
American Corporations pay the lowest taxes in the entire developed world!
Pay no attention to the lies already coming from the Right – corporations are paying less in taxes in America than they’ve paid in 40 years. According to the Congressional Budget Office – despite American corporations making enormous profits last year – their second best in a generation - they paid on average only 12.1% in federal taxes. That’s far below the 35% corporate tax rate that Conservatives claim is crippling business in America. At 12.1%, American corporations are paying the lowest taxes in the entire developed world.
It’s also a staggering drop off since the last quarter century – between 1987 and 2008 – when corporations paid on average a 25.6% corporation tax rate. When corporations and the very, very wealthy aren’t paying their fair share in taxes, then working people have to pick up the slack. That’s exactly what’s happened in recent years – and one reason why the United States has one of the highest level of wealth inequality in the developed world – and why the middle class is disappearing right in front of our eyes.
-Thom
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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 9pm and 11pm... What's Romney going to run on? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT, and catch past shows on Youtube)
Need to Know: What's Romney going to run on?- Mike Slater, Conservative commentator & talk show host
Screwed: Can Mayor Tom Barrett beat Walker?- Graeme Zielinksi, Democratic Party of Wisconsin
The Best of the Rest of the News...
Topic: U.S. Corps are no longer businesses...they're extraction machines
Everything You Know is Wrong- Why Do Ads that Diss Women Get Removed while Ads that Diss Men are Funny? - Professor James "Jim" Macnamara, author of "Media and Male Identity: The Making and Remaking of Men".
Daily Take: Time to acknowledge the American fear machine
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Monday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 3-6pm ET
Hour One: Walker Recall & Tuesday's WI primary- John Nichols, The Nation Magazine
Hour Two: Friends don't let friends eat pink slime...lobbyists do- Dan Gainor, Business and Media Institute
And, the best of the rest of the news and your calls right here on...
The Thom Hartmann Program...your media support group for "we the people"...TAG, YOU'RE IT!!!!!!!!! (OCCUPY SOMETHING!!!!!)
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Friday's Daily Stack
Quote: "You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." -- Cesar Chavez, 1984 (Cesar Chavez Day 3/31/12).
Hour One: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
Quote: "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confuscius.
The Big Picture- Sam Sacks, The Big Picture producer, progressive commentator
Hour Two: If it's Friday, it's "Brunch With Bernie"... the honorable Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) joins Thom with all the news from our nation's capitol and as always he'll be spending the hour taking your calls and answering your questions too... Follow Bernie: campaign site.
Speech: " First Inaugural Address", Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 4 March 1933. "let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
Hour Three: Anything Goes on Townhall Friday
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Thom's Poll
Will the $500 million from the Koch brothers and other American oligarchs be enough to defeat Obama in 2012?
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Watch & Listen to Thom
Conversations with Great Minds - Brian Miller - The Self-Made Myth P1
Conversations with Great Minds - Brian Miller - The Self-Made Myth P2
Conversations w/Great Minds - David Rothkopf - Power, Inc P2
If y'all come to get me - bring body bags!
The Big Picture Rumble - What is Scalia busy reading instead of Obamacare?
The Big Picture Rumble - What is Scalia busy reading instead of Obamacare?
Or watch the Full "Big Picture" Show...
Full Show 3/30/12: Conversations with Great Minds: Brian Miller
Thom talks with author and United for a Fair Economy's Executive Director Brian Miller in tonight's "Conversations with Great Minds." The "Big Picture Rumble" panel discusses the fate of Obamcare, Paul Ryan's radical budget and the latest from the Trayvon Martin case. In tonight's "Daily Take" Thom details what grown men do when they're unable to find a job.
Thom Hartmann on the News - March 30, 2012
Brunch with Bernie - March 30, 2012
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