Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we have just heard a discussion of the issue of tax reform, and my colleague across the aisle has said there should be no corporate minimum tax on corporations, and yet Americans know that billionaire companies one after the other--some of the most profitable companies in our entire country, companies like Amazon-- don't pay a single cent in tax. They use our legal system. They use our road system. They use our education system. They use it all in vast quantities and don't contribute a single dime. One single ordinary worker does more to pay for all of the infrastructure these massive companies utilize than the company does. It is about time corporations that make massive profits pay something, and 15 percent isn't even their fair share. And it is part of a global agreement to hold corporations accountable, so they don't skip from one country to another, to another, to another, evading everyone everywhere. My colleague also said a lot about why we should not put a 1 percent tax on stock buybacks. Let's understand what stock buybacks are. First of all, a president of a company works to get a board, and that board is compensated, and then that board makes lots of decisions about, well, the welfare of the top executives. They set the salaries for the top executives, and then they give them stock options. Now, if you have a stock option and then your company buys back stock, every share gets more valuable; you make a massive amount of money.…”