Raise their corporate income tax rate!

Most Americans, when they hear that President Joe Biden wants to raise the corporate income tax to 28% to pay for his infrastructure plan, think that means that every business in America is suddenly going to be hit with some kind of surcharge.

That couldn't be further from the truth.

Read more at HartmannReport.com.

-Thom

Thursday's Daily Stack

Hour One: Debate! What's not to Love About a Corporate Tax Rate That Encourages Investments & Higher Wages?
- Charles Sauer, Libertarian / Economist & President - The Market Institute / author of Profit Motive: What Drives the Things We Do

Article: "Who bears the burden of the corporate income tax?" by Tax Policy Center.

Article: "Would Biden's Tax Hike Really Spare the Middle Class? Nope" by Michael R. Strain.

Article: "United States Federal Corporate Tax Rate 1909-2020 Data" by Trading Economics.

Article: "What's in Biden's Tax Plan?" by Alan Rappeport and Jim Tankersley.

Article: "Biden's Tax Plan Aims to Raise $2.5 Trillion and End Profit-Shifting" by Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport.

Article: "Joe Manchin: Want American Businesses to Invest in West Virginia?" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Manchin opposes corporate tax hike to 28% in Biden's infrastructure bill" by Ursula Perano.

Article: "United States Federal Corporate Tax Rate1909-2021" by Trading Economics.

Article: "Corporation Income Tax Brackets and Rates, Thanks, Thomas. Unfortunately I have to work now.1909-2002" by IRS.

Article: "Biden's Tax Plan Aims to Raise $2.5 Trillion and End Profit-Shifting" by Jim Tankersley and Alan Rappeport.

Article: "A Tax Change Is Coming, Maybe: President Biden unveils his corporate tax overhaul." by Andrew Ross Sorkin, Jason Karaian, Sarah Kessler, Michael J. de la Merced, Lauren Hirsch and Ephrat Livni.

Article: "Do these 3 things in your small business before year's end" by Rhonda Abrams.

Article: "Biden condemns US gun violence as an 'international embarrassment' as he announces new actions – live" by Joan E Greve.

Article: "Biden's planned pick for ATF director a fierce advocate for gun control" by Paul LeBlanc.

Book: Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto by Ber Mark.

Article: "Doctor, his grandkids among 5 killed in shootings at South Carolina home: Officials" by William Mansell and Emily Shapiro.

Article: "Jeff Bezos says Amazon supports corporate tax rate hike" by Tim O'Donnell.

Article: "The Tax Experiment That Failed" by ITVS Independent Lens.

Bible: "1 Timothy 6:10: For the love of money is the root of all evil".

Article: "DC Statehood Bill Introduced By Senate Democrats" by WJZ.

Hour Two: The Economics of "De-Growth"
- Dr. Richard Wolff, Economist / Co-founder, Democracy At Work / Author of numerous books - his latest is The Sickness is the System (now also available as an e-book)

Article: "How stalling growth hurts the planet" by Bryan Walsh.

Article: "Biden might agree to a 25% corporate tax rate as a compromise with business groups, rather than the 28% he wanted, according to a report" by Grace Dean.

Article: "Daniel Ellsberg" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Covid: Brazil has more than 4,000 deaths in 24 hours for first time" by BBC.

Article: "A third of Covid-19 survivors suffer 'brain disease,' study shows" by Ryan Prior.

Article: "US Capitol: Suspect shot dead and officer killed after car rams into police barricade" by Tom Gillespie.

Movie: "Kedi (2016 film)".

Article: "Chauvin trial told 'a healthy person would have died' under same circumstances as George Floyd – live" by Victoria Bekiempis.

Article: "The tale of Boeing's high-risk flight into the jet age " by Richard B. Woodward.

Article: "Tax incentives: Boeing 707 edition" by Justin Fox.

Article: "Why the South Must Prevail" by William F. Buckley Jr.

Book: Tobacco Culture: The Mentality of the Great Tidewater Planters on the Eve of Revolution by T.H. Breen.

Article: "2nd Amendment". A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Science Revolution: Can Our Food Systems Be Fixed?
- Journalist Grace "Gracy" Olmstead, author of Uprooted: Recovering the Legacy of the Places We've Left Behind

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Documentary: Heist: Who Stole the American Dream .

Article: "Hippocratic Oath" by Wikipedia.

Documentary: "The Long Shadow".

Article: "Manhattan district attorney seizes evidence from Trump executive's former daughter-in-law" by Shayna Jacobs and David A. Fahrenthold.

Article: "Matt Gaetz associate likely to strike plea deal, attorneys say" by Paula Reid, David Shortell and Mark Morales.

Quote: "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne.

Article: "Activist suspected in Portland shooting was fired at 30 times by police, official says" by Sam Levin.

Article: "Kind People Are Suffering From Cruelty Sickness" by John Pavlovitz.

Article: "Sturgis Bike Rally: Superspreading Event or Not?" by Kathleen Doheny.

Article: "Governor Abbott Lifts Mask Mandate, Opens Texas 100 Percent" by Greg Abbott.

Article: "Florida's governor bans agencies and businesses from requiring 'vaccine passports.'" by Patricia Mazzei, Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Eileen Sullivan and Isabella Grullón Paz.

Case: "District of Columbia v. Heller", 2008 (2nd Amendment).

Article: "Virginia Ratifying Convention" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Madison's notes on the Constitutional Convention of 1787: July 20, 1787" by James Madison.

Book: "The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment" by Thom Hartmann.

Article: "Constitution of the United States" Article 1 section 8 (Powers of Congress). "...To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;..."

Law: "Military Peace Establishment Act" (1802).

Article: "War of 1812" by Wikipedia.

Tweet: "first they came for the 2nd Amendment, and I didn't speak out— because no one is coming for the 2nd Amendment, you whiny paranoid dipshit grievance-baby gun fetishists" by Jeff Tiedrich.

Article: "Piney Point wastewater leak: A history of the former phosphate plant site" by FOX 13 News.

Video: Long-time environmental reporter in Tampa Bay, Craig Pittman, gives perspective on Piney Point.

Article: "Victory garden" by Wikipedia.

Site: Next Door.

Article: "Did Little Caesars Hang a Sign Offering Free Pizza to Dumpster Divers?" by Bethania Palma.

Article: "The Great Land Robbery" by Vann R. Newkirk II.

Article: "Tom Vilsack" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Vilsack gets Senate Agriculture backing to return to USDA" by Ellyn Ferguson.

Article: "Firing of Shirley Sherrod" by Wikipedia.

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