Time for a Tea Party?

Did you know US based multinational corporations like Apple, GE, Bank of America, Verizon, FedEx, Microsoft, Walmart, Citigroup, Chevron, and BP are paying around $0 on their income taxes?

I didn't.

And now I do.

Because now I really, really understand what all the Occupy Wall St. protests are actually about. 

And now I'm pretty pissed about it. 

I've been watching We're Not Broke on Netflix. I need something to settle my stomach because, good Lord, y'all. Corporations are paying $0 in taxes (some are even having negative taxes, which means the government owes them money, not the other way around!!). I'm going to pay almost $2,200 in taxes this year and corporations earning hundreds of billions of dollars  aren't going to pay a single cent to the US government.

How on Earth is that remotely fair? 

Americans, as citizens, aren't broke. We have money, we spend money. But it's amazing that the more we spend to "boost" our economy, the further in the hole our country becomes. The reason for this is the big companies are dodging their taxes. They're paying 0% of their income (sometimes they've actually earned -0.5% income, which I didn't even know was possible! How can you earn a negative?) while we're sitting here paying God knows how much each paycheck. 

What happened to "the government is there to protect the citizens"? It's turned into "the government is there to protect the corporations because without those funds and 'donations' during campaigns those government officals couldn't run their ads."

Sometimes 'Merica blows.

In order to offset the government money lost to corporate income taxes, the government proposes tax cuts to civilian services like police officers, welfare programs (like food stamps), schools and public educations, 

Go watch the movie on Netflix. Go check out US Uncut's website. 

Perhaps it really is time to join a Tea Party . . . After all, we're all mad here anyway, right?