[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Tax Obama's CEO Friends

[C. G. ESTABROOK]

Subject: Tax Obama's CEO Friends
Date: 	Wed, 7 Sep 2011 13:10:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: 	Aimee Allison, RootsAction <info at rootsaction.org>

*Ten individuals with close ties to President Obama, including GE's CEO Jeff
Immelt ... made vastly more money than their companies paid in taxes.*

Thanks to the Institute for Policy Studies and Huffington Post, we have
identified 10 obvious sources of revenue that have not been tapped.

Ten FOOs (Friends of Obama) ran corporations with nearly $27 billion in profits
last year. The 10 FOOs took home roughly $160 million in pay -- an average of
$16 million per person last year. And their companies paid negative $5.4 billion 
in taxes. That's right: we paid them.

*Budget problems? Tax these guys and their companies!*

   * ***General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (Head of Obama's Council on Jobs, but
     most of his jobs are overseas)*
   * ***Honeywell CEO David Cote (Obama appointee to the Simpson-Bowles commission)*
   * ***Ford CEO Allan Mulally (Member of Obama's Export Council)*
   * ***Boeing CEO James McNerny Jr. (Member of Obama's Export Council)*
   * ***Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg (Member of Obama's Export Council)*
   * ***eBay CEO John Donahoe (Member of White House Council for Community
     Solutions)*
   * ***Qwest CEO Edward Mueller (Chair of President's National Security Telecom.
     Committee)*
   * ***Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris (Co-Chair of Obama's Advanced
     Manufacturing Partnership)*
   * ***Motorola CEO Greg Brown (Member of President's Management Advisory Board)*
   * ***International Paper CEO John Faraci (traveled with Obama to Brazil)*
     **

*Of course, not all overpaid, undertaxed CEOs are FOOs. Many are FOBs (Friends
of Boehner) or FOBOs (Friends of Boehner and Obama). Let's tax all these
multi-millionaires -- whether they're allied with one or both major parties.

Raise their income taxes. Collect their corporate taxes.

No cuts to education, the environment, Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.

And please forward this email to your friends.

Sincerely,
Aimee, David, Sarah
and the RootsAction team

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*Resources:*
Obama's Close Ties To CEOs Whose Firms Dodge Taxes
<http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AQlGgbKGNN1UwC14x9JBacbaOZkKhte7>