From 1998 to 2005 two-thirds of American corporations did not pay any taxes. Now, middle-class Americans are fighting back. Ryan Clayton, co-founder of US Uncut.org, and Justin Ruben, executive director of MoveOn.org, talk with MSNBC's Cenk Uygur about the protests sweeping across America and how you can get involved.

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Middle Class Keeps Up the Fight

Cenk Uygur, MSNBC

01 March 11

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+16 # DPM 2011-03-01 14:52

Send this to everyone you know.
Take your money out of BofA Stop buying Koch brothers, Brawny, Dixie, Northern and Sparkle products. Pass it on.
Go Wisconsin! Go U.S.A!

+16 # rf 2011-03-02 04:37

Yeah! Boycott the Koch industries!

-20 # zeros71 2011-03-03 00:10

you are raving about one simple nonsense fact, of corporations not paying taxes at all.
why do you discredit yourself and your readers with such illiterate and mad allegations?You are totally incoherent and discredit your own purpose.You do it until you are attacked by a real corporation for slander,or taken to a lunatic asylum.If you are to represent me, take responsibility for your comments.why do you destroy an otherwise nobel and realistic purpose?

+2 # mark_proulx 2011-03-05 08:47

The video cites the Washington Post and GAO as sources. I tried to search the GAO web site for a report that might correspond to this claim, but had no success. In addition, I searched the WP site and failed to find anything there. Could someone help me out in finding some of this source material?

+7 # Demfatale 2011-03-07 19:58

To Mark Proulx:

Go here for one source of the claim:
http://money.cnn.com/2008/08/12/news/economy/corporate_taxes/

Zeros71, your rant is a painful example of brainwashing by corporate-owned media. I don't see anyone on this site claiming to "represent" you, but I can easily understand why you are ignored. Even for a brainwashed stooge of the plutocracy, your inference that somehow financial institutions that helped themselves to YOUR tax dollars and made huge profits in 2009 and then stiffed the American people on their corporate taxes while sucking up another BILLION tax dollars in loophole credits is "an otherwise nobel and realistic purpose" makes me wonder if you are in a lunatic asylum. Your post is certainly an "illiterate and mad allegation." The only response one can have to such cluelessness is pity. It is because of profoundly deranged misinterpretati ons of the facts such as yours that the country is in such deep trouble. You probably voted for Bush twice. Look how well that worked out! Stop watching Fox. Get your news on rsn, and the world will look a lot different.

0 # Teresa B. Reidy 2011-03-28 05:40

From what I have listened to, I intend to cancel my Bank of America credit card. I hope others will do the same.

0 # Teresa B. Reidy 2011-03-28 05:42

After what I have just listened to, I intend to cancel my Bank of America Credit card. I hope all those holding these cards will do the same------big loss to the bank I would think.

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