Sentences with phrase «at wealthy corporations»

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But if you look at who gets the bulk of the benefit, corporations, wealthy individuals, they got the whole loaf of bread and you got, yeah, crumbs.»

First, he accomplished most of what he actually wanted to accomplish in the position — namely, massive tax cuts for corporations and wealthy Americans (such as Cohn, a former top executive at Goldman Sachs).

Trump pitched the plan as a benefit to the middle class that comes at the expense of the rich — an assessment at odds with independent tax experts who have analyzed the bill and concluded the bulk of its benefits go to corporations and the wealthy.

When it comes to redistributive taxation of wealthy businessmen, corporations, and Wall Street banks, the elites at Harvard and Yale seem more than pleased.

Democrats have characterized the bill as benefiting corporations and the wealthy at the expense of middle - class and poorer taxpayers.

Obviously, the Occupy Wall Street Movement has Governor Cuomo and his corporate allies worried and with good reason: Pressure is mounting because corporations evade paying their fair share of taxes through loopholes and political favoritism, while the super wealthy look forward to an indefensible $ 5 billion windfall at year's end.

He framed the proposal as a way to hit back at the new federal tax law, which he called «the biggest giveaway to the wealthy and corporations in our history.»

«The wealthiest Americans and wealthiest corporations make out like bandits, while middle class Americans are left holding the bag,» he said at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol.

«Eliminating the state and local deduction, while slashing taxes for the wealthy and huge corporations, will hurt middle - class taxpayers, and various attempts at a «compromise» are just as bad,» Schumer said.

There's a conversation, a serious one, to be had about fracking, about the machinations of energy corporations, about capitalism — but it's rich that these wealthy white guys think the best way to go about inspiring debate is by presenting straw men at play in the heart of hicksploitation U.S.A..

I'm afraid I'll sound condescending here, but if you don't at least follow the news, you probably are going to find Syriana to be a tedious watch, and that's a shame in itself, as ignorance to world events is what greases the wheels of the grand machine that keeps corporations fat and happy, politicians in their pockets, foreign regimes in a constant state of perpetual flux, and the standard of living for millions of people near destitute in what should be the among the wealthiest nations on the face of the Earth.

Many of the wealthiest corporations in the world are members of ALEC, which uses its vast resources to shower state politicians across the country with expensive gifts, high - priced dinners at fancy restaurants, and vacation junkets at exotic resorts.

Instead of funding schools, our current leaders give billions in tax breaks to billionaires and wealthy multinational corporations - at the same time that they tell us there is not enough money to hire teachers or build schools.

The idea is reminiscent of «Super» Mario J. Gabelli's Private Market Value with a Catalyst methodology, the premise of which is the value of a company «if it is acquired by an informed wealthy family, or by another private or public corporation, as opposed to the price it is trading at in the stock markets.

Yes, one of things out there is rogue nation / corporation / wealthy individual / terrorist organization could, at any time, geo - engineer the global climate.

Calling for a carbon tax on polluters could, feasibly, even become a political winner (the Yale study also finds astonishingly high support for regulating CO2 as a pollutant), as anger percolates at the GOP's intransigence to raising taxes even on the wealthy and corporations.