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Taxing the Multinationals
Corporate America has more than $1 trillion in untaxed overseas earnings. President Obama says Congress should change that to help bring down the deficit, but...
By Warren Olney • • 50m ListenCorporate America has more than a trillion dollars in overseas earnings that are not being taxed. General Electric alone has $94 billion. President Obama says Congress should change that to help bring down the deficit, but the head of his outside economic advisors is also the head of General Electric. We have more on the Washington Merry Go-Round. Also, it's one budget vote down and one to go on Capitol Hill, and how the Gulf oil disaster created "spillionaires."
Banner image: President Obama meets with members of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, February 24, 2011, General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, chair of the Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (L) Chief of Staff Bill Daley (2nd R) and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka (far R). Official White House photo: Pete Souza
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3 storiesOne Budget Vote Down, One to Go
The budget bill passed yesterday by the Senate and Congress was advertised as cutting $38 billion. Now the Congressional Budget Office says just $352 million will be saved this year. But that’s not the only reason some Republicans are angry at Speaker John Boehner and some liberal Democrats want to challenge the President.
Read the story7 minTaxing the Multinationals
One economics editor says Washington has been running a " fiscal clown show " for the past 10 years by spending more and taxing less. The report that General Electric earned more than $5 billion in profit while paying no taxes at all focused attention on multinational corporations.
Read the story37 minGulf Coast 'Spillionaires' Cash In on BP Payments
BP got most of the blame for the Gulf oil spill , the worst in US history. The federal government gave the company control over the clean-up, and BP has spent $16 billion so far to make things right. A report by ProPublica , co-published with the Washington Post, says that gusher of money has created profiteers.
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