Not content with Ferris Wheel-sized tax evasion loopholes that have given top corporations profit extravagance while American workers—the actual creators of our societal wealth—are stuck with part-time jobs providing lousy pay and no benefits, Fat Cat profiteers scheme to grow fatter still.
Their latest dirty trick is “inversion,” by which U.S. firms abandon national loyalty and set up headquarters in foreign countries where their tax-avoidance ability is even greater than here.
Meanwhile, typical folks futilely struggle to make up for all that lost revenue, meaning the federal Treasury loses what’s needed to fund infrastructure repairs, education viability, vital safety-net programs, etc.
Burger King is merging with the Canadian doughnut chain Tim Hortons for apparently that obscene reason.
“Have it your way” is Burger King’s famous slogan, but we’d get thoroughly shafted if the fast-food giant got its selfish, treasonous way.
The American masses are vociferously agreeing that this is the last straw. Social media are aflame with resentment. Burger King’s Facebook page is the chief venue for nothing short of a popular revolution which, one has to logically assume, could frighten the company into a change of heart.
After all, that’s what happened at Walgreen’s when the drugstore operation sought to do the same thing.
Democratic Ohio U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown has called for a Burger King boycott, urging consumer patronage at Wendy’s and White Castle instead. But that isn’t enough. Underlying, systemic greed must be curbed.
A countrywide economic justice movement based on Occupy Wall Street’s example is definitely required.
It’s either that or ongoing, spreading plunder that would ultimately reduce us to Third World status within our own nation’s borders.
Dennis Rahkonen of Superior, Wisconsin, has been writing progressive commentary with a Heartland perspective for various outlets since the ’60s.
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Burger King’s last straw
Posted on August 28, 2014 by Dennis Rahkonen
Not content with Ferris Wheel-sized tax evasion loopholes that have given top corporations profit extravagance while American workers—the actual creators of our societal wealth—are stuck with part-time jobs providing lousy pay and no benefits, Fat Cat profiteers scheme to grow fatter still.
Their latest dirty trick is “inversion,” by which U.S. firms abandon national loyalty and set up headquarters in foreign countries where their tax-avoidance ability is even greater than here.
Meanwhile, typical folks futilely struggle to make up for all that lost revenue, meaning the federal Treasury loses what’s needed to fund infrastructure repairs, education viability, vital safety-net programs, etc.
Burger King is merging with the Canadian doughnut chain Tim Hortons for apparently that obscene reason.
“Have it your way” is Burger King’s famous slogan, but we’d get thoroughly shafted if the fast-food giant got its selfish, treasonous way.
The American masses are vociferously agreeing that this is the last straw. Social media are aflame with resentment. Burger King’s Facebook page is the chief venue for nothing short of a popular revolution which, one has to logically assume, could frighten the company into a change of heart.
After all, that’s what happened at Walgreen’s when the drugstore operation sought to do the same thing.
Democratic Ohio U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown has called for a Burger King boycott, urging consumer patronage at Wendy’s and White Castle instead. But that isn’t enough. Underlying, systemic greed must be curbed.
A countrywide economic justice movement based on Occupy Wall Street’s example is definitely required.
It’s either that or ongoing, spreading plunder that would ultimately reduce us to Third World status within our own nation’s borders.
Dennis Rahkonen of Superior, Wisconsin, has been writing progressive commentary with a Heartland perspective for various outlets since the ’60s.