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How big corporations are unpatriotic

By Staff Reports | March 29, 2013

Raytheon presentation

Many giant profitable U.S. corporations are increasingly abandoning America while draining it at the same time. General Electric, for example, has paid no federal income taxes for a decade while becoming a net job exporter and fighting its hard-pressed workers who want collective bargaining through unions like the United Electrical Workers Union (UE). GE’s boss, Jeffrey … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economy Tagged With: corporate taxes, General Electric, Ralph Nader

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