Corporate tax rate should be $0 for products and profits on products manufactured in the US. On all others, its should be 20%. There should be an incentive for US labor to be used.

I luv Jvl,

What is a fair share for corporate tax rate? 40% or More?

GE earned 14 Billion in Profits-filed a 57,000 page tax return and paid no federal income tax on that profit. Yet, GE did not break a law-they took all of the legal deductions afforded to them-if you were tax queen-what is the fair amount for GE to pay?

Maybe they're upset that the funding for prisons has tripled while school funding has dropped significantly. Irrelevant to some though I would assume...

The people in the recall effort of walker or the Occupiers - they're all the same.
Many are from out of state - many think they are entitled to your money - many of them know who Kim Kardashian is and what she does for a living.

Asking big corporation to pay their fair share of taxes will not "take them out of the picture." 99% percent are simply asking for tax equity. That's pretty silly to think raising their taxes or closing some loopholes will cause of loss of jobs. Putting money back in the hands of the middle class will actually help the economy by creating a greater ability to spend at the local levels. Small businesses can flourish, and real jobs are created. Conversely, corporations are simply pocketing their additional income, or in many cases, increasing their overseas developments. Putting the money back into the hands of the average American is a much better solution.

‎"I want to be very clear in calling upon the Egyptian authorities to refrain from any violence against peaceful protestors," said Obama. "The people of Egypt have rights that are universal. That includes the right to peaceful assembly and association, the right to free speech, and the ability to determine their own destiny. These are human rights. And the United States will stand up for them everywhere." Barack Obama Jan, 2011

Guess this does not apply to the United States.

"A lot of people are out here protesting big corporations and corporate greed,” he said. “What they don’t understand is that big corporations, look how many people are employed and look how many jobs they have. You take big corporations out of the picture and people lose their investments, and people are out of work" I completely agree, i'm glad someone finally said this and it was quoted by the media.

More whining from those who add nothing of value to society. In the two months that this "movement" has been active some have spent the entire time camped out living by begging for donations from others. What have they accomplished? Who have they helped? Who has missed them? What has not gotten done anywhere because of the their abscense?
These "99%ers" are actually the 10% of society that wants things to be "fair and have defined fair as others should give me what I want. Were it not for a press corps desperate to try to make this seem as if it mattered other than the people who have to clean up their sewage and the small buisness they have hurt no one would even notice them.

NVgrf

Your source is a professor from California? Maybe the professor should work on cleaning up that crappy state. It is one of the highest paying for welfare benefits in the US.

NV

The top 1% also pay 37% of the total federal tax bill. The bottom 50% pay 2.3%. What is fair? Should the top 1% of tax payers pay an even greater share? How much more?

NV

Top 1% have 35% of the total networth. Whats your alternative?

To take it away and distribute it to people like you? Why? Why do you deserver it?

Feduptaxpeyer.......Although I realize that this is a lot of reading for you, give it a shot...maybe a paragraph a day. If you figure out how to do some research on your own, you will find that the statistics from other social science sources are comparable.

Althttp://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html

Fedup,

As you know its very easy to complain. To offer solutions is above their pay grade. Some people would rather close their eyes really tight and pretend that a man riding a unicorn without a saddle will pay for their gas and mortgage out of fairness, offering hope and change as currency.

Unfortunately, I dont live in utopia-I live in a place called reality. The govt dose not create wealth-it only takes it. The occupy simpletons should be occupying 1600 pennsylvania street demanding accountability rather than defecating and urinating in public-complaining that despite a degree in puppetering-they cannot find a job (though the real unemployment rate for all college grads is 4%) while the local unemployment rate is 10-15%-demanding that people with means give their property to them, forgive their college loans, etc.

Fedup-have a great weekend!

TCB - excellant point. Unions are BIG business that bring in MILLIONS of dollars. And their fearless leaders are in some cases making upwards and even over 400K a year plus all the luxury travel and accomodations when they have conventions and meetings at the white house. I wonder how many union posters that are on here are bringing in that kind of money???

Graf-is defecation speech? Is this action a constitutionly protected form of speech?

Why do you hate corporations? Are unions corporations? UNions are in the business of selling labor-correct? To be both anti-corporate and pro-union is an internally illogical position. They are one and the same.

TCB - you wont get a straight answer, he doesn't have one. He only posts what he is told to post. And when you press them for facts they disappear - just like Nicksmom did on me the other day. Makes a claim and then will not back it up with facts. IMO they are union puppets.

NV - how is the fat boy with the cap doing for you all these days?? He's a 1 percenter. Put some effort into something and maybe you could become one instead of sitting around waiting for another hand out.

anyone who thinks that 1% of US citizens control 99% of the wealth is an idiot.

NV-how much wealth exists in the United states? How did you measure it?

Wow! The gang of righties is out early in this blog! First Amendment expressions are the soul and conscience of our nation! Give 'em hell, Occupiers! Anyone who believes that having the top 1% of Americans control 99% of the wealth is either an idiot or has had far far too much of the corporate propaganda Kool Aid! God Bless the Bill of Rights!

youkillme - The citizens of WI - you speak as if for the entire state. Wrong. And when this recall fails, only then will democracy be restored. For if it were to some how succeed, our state and our nation will have driven another nail into our coffins and a step closer to becoming a socialist communist country. Then I fear that we will be reduce to fighting each other in a more serious way.

Somebody needs to stand up and tell the OWS movement that the 1% are not affected by their protest. They don't live or work on Wall street and no matter how much they waste their time demonstrating it doesn't effect the 1%'s bank accounts. They can protest for the next 100yrs. and it won't make a difference. Their protest is falling on deaf ears.

Wisconsin should be very proud of its role in these efforts to restore our democratic republic and take back our government from slimeballs like Walker. The battles have just barely begun.

Nicksmom - hey you never answered my question from the other day??????

So why are our elected officials speaking to these cry babies? Recall them now.

Move on students. Nobody cares about this movement anymore. It's a joke.

“What they don’t understand is that big corporations, look how many people are employed and look how many jobs they have. You take big corporations out of the picture and people lose their investments, and people are out of work.”

Really? All those corporations outsourcing jobs to Asia or Central America, laying American workers off, enriching CEOs and corporate executives with high stock prices. Right.