Profitable corporations like GE, Verizon, and Boeing have not only paid nothing in Federal income taxes in a given year, they actually got rebates from the IRS.
Bernie Sanders: “Profitable corporations like GE, Verizon, and Boeing have not only paid nothing in Federal income taxes in a given year…”
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Criticism of corporations avoiding taxes while low-income programs face cuts.
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