Survey of 2016 Presidential campaign websites: on Corporations
Gloria La Riva:
Capitalist banking is a form of organized crime
Seize the banks--Jail Wall Street criminals: The banks' vast wealth came from the people's labor and tax- dollar bailout. Capitalist banking is a form of organized crime, rewarding greed and fraud with obscene bonuses.
These billionaires looted and destroyed the economy. It is time to seize their assets and use those resources in the interests of the vast majority. Power must be taken out of the hands of the super rich, and the Wall Street criminals must be held accoun
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website http://www.votepsl.org/
Feb 3, 2016
Gary Johnson:
Eliminate double taxation embodied in business income taxes
Governor Johnson advocates the elimination of tax subsidies, the double taxation embodied in business income taxes, and ultimately, the replacement of all income and payroll taxes with a single consumption tax that will allow every American and every
business to determine their tax burden by making their own spending decisions. Taxes on purchases for basic necessities would be "prebated", with all other purchases taxed equally regardless of income, status or purpose.
Many leading economists have long advocated such a shift in the way we are taxed, and Gary Johnson believes the time has come to eliminate the punishing tax code we have today and replace it with a system that rewards productivity, investment & savings.
The IRS as we know it today would no longer be necessary, and Americans would no longer need to live in fear of the force of government being wielded under the guise of tax collection.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website GaryJohnson2016.com
Jan 11, 2016
Jill Stein:
Break up "too-big-to-fail" banks
A Just Economy: Set a $15/hour federal minimum wage. Break up "too-big-to-fail" banks and democratize the Federal Reserve. Reject gentrification as a model of economic development. Support development of worker and community cooperatives and
small businesses. Make Wall Street, big corporations, and the rich pay their fair share of taxes. Create democratically run public banks and utilities. Replace corporate trade agreements with fair trade agreements.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, jill2016.com, "Plan"
Jun 25, 2015
Martin O`Malley:
Income gap growing due to concentration of corporate power
In our idea of country, there is no such thing as a spare American. There is, however, a growing injustice in our country today. It is the gap between the strong and just country our children need for us to be, and the country we are in danger of
becoming. For today in America, 70% of us are earning the same or less than they were 12 years ago. Today in America, family owned businesses and farms are struggling to compete with ever larger concentrations of corporate power.
Powerful, wealthy special interests here at home have used our government to create--in our own country--an economy that is leaving a majority of our people behind. An economy where a majority of our people are unheard, unseen, un-needed, and left
to conclude that their lives and labors are literally worth less today than they were yesterday. We are allowing our land of opportunity to be turned into a land of inequality. Main Street struggles, while Wall Street soars.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, MartinOMalley.com
May 30, 2015
Bernie Sanders:
Break up major Wall Street firms
The function of banking is to facilitate the flow of capital into productive and job-creating activities. Financial institutions cannot be an island unto themselves, standing as huge profit centers outside of the real economy.
Today, six huge Wall Street financial institutions have assets equivalent to 61 percent of our gross domestic product--over $9.8 trillion.
These institutions underwrite more than half the mortgages in this country and more than two-thirds of the credit cards.
The greed, recklessness and illegal behavior of major Wall Street firms plunged this country into the worst financial crisis since the 1930s. They are too powerful to be reformed. They must be broken up.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, BernieSanders.com
Mar 21, 2015
Bernie Sanders:
Worker-owned cooperatives instead of corporate tax breaks
We need to develop new economic models to increase job creation and productivity. Instead of giving huge tax breaks to corporations which ship our jobs to China and other low-wage countries, we need to provide assistance to workers who want to purchase
their own businesses by establishing worker-owned cooperatives. When workers have an ownership stake in the businesses they work for, productivity goes up, absenteeism goes down and employees are much more satisfied with their jobs.
Source: 2016 presidential campaign website, BernieSanders.com
Mar 21, 2015
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