Here is how much big cooperation paid uncle Sam:

Exxon Mobil: Total taxes $15.1 billion

U.S. federal: -$156 million

U.S. state and local: $110 million

International: $15.2 billion

Chevron: Total taxes $8 billion

U.S. federal: -$19 million

U.S. state and local: $230 million

International: $7.8 billion

General Electric: Total taxes -$1.1 billion

GE made over $10.5 billion overseas and deferring the tax payment for this profit indefinitely.

Bank of America: Total taxes -$1.9 billion

U.S. federal: -$2.8 billion

U.S. state and local: -$65 million

International: $933 million

Where the American wealth is going?

All of those companies are blood suckers. They don't pay any taxes on their profit, but they come and big for bailout. Nationalization doesn't sound too bad for me now?

^ why do you hate America..??

^ I don't think this is America G.Washington and Jefferson had in mind. I paid more than one third of my income in taxes, and those blood suckers made billions and didn't pay a single penny. Moreover, all of them benefited from bailout money, and various tax deductions and government grants.

This is uneffen beleivable, and I am Pissed!

did you just start reading the newspaper?

Are you from Sara Palin country?

Jeez where in the hell have you been living?

This is some old news.

I heard JohnE hates puppy-dogs too....

JohnE, Shut up and do what Fox News tell you. Or listen to the words of George Carlin:

"The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying – lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else,"

"But I'll tell you what they don't want, They don't want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't help them. That's against their interests. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 **** years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers – people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly ****tier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And, now, they're coming for your Social Security. They want your **** retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, sooner or later, because they own this **** place. It's a big club, and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club."

^ I though an angry woman wrote that...?

^^I thought a plumber from Armpit Arkansas said that to a n Army General who wrote it down.

Nine!!!!!

1: Yup. Corporate oligarchy. And the tea baggers are tools dancing for their corporate masters.

Screw you all.

Signed: Us Globalists

JohnE,

Where did you get those numbers?

They are either fabricated or simply selective.

Either way, they aren't accurate.

I stopped after doing 30 seconds of research on the first company listed, Exxon Mobil:

http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Files/news_release_earnings4q09.pdf 

Total taxes 2009: $75B

And don't bother thinking it's for an earlier year, because in 2008 they paid $116B.

He got them from a chain email that is pushing his flaming liberal/homosexual agenda.

^ Fuzz,

which Corp.do you work for ?

wheel,

^^ azzhats, the numbers are publish at cnnMoney

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2010/news/1004/gallery.top_5_tax_bills/index.html 

The homepage has an article about GE, and how they pay and defer their taxes.

GE sux,,,

wheel,

#6

Another posting from a Marxist blog.

yawn..................

JohnE,

So you're saying that cnnMoney is the liar, and not you?

Just asking.

Because your numbers are wrong.

But more importantly, your conclusion is misguided.

You completely ignore several facts:

1. The corporations don't make the rules, nor the loop holes.

2. They employ tens of thousands of people who do pay taxes.

3. They usually have an obligation to shareholders to maximize profits. If you held Exxon/Mobil stock I doubt you'd be bitching.

And your whining is unproductive.

Complain to your congressman. Ask them to investigate.

^

First you need to learn not to call people you don't know liars. Your parents should have taught you that already!

Second, you need to learn how to read financial statements. The link you provided states that the Total Taxes figures, which include international taxes, sales taxes, localized taxes, etc. My first post, which was taken from CNNMoney talks about federal taxes. So, obviously you have problem reading and/or understanding what you read.

Third, What makes you assume that I haven't already sent a complain to my congressman?

If you think expressing opinion, frustration, or disagreement is unproductive whining, maybe all discussions should should be seized. And overtime we think of something we go knock on our representative door.

Forth, like many others here, I think you probably didn't think much about your response to my post mindfully and just wrote without thinking, but I might be wrong!

tea party = re-elect NOBODY!!!!!!!!!