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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789727203321

Autore

LeRoy Greg

Titolo

The great American jobs scam [[electronic resource] ] : corporate tax dodging and the myth of job creation / / Greg LeRoy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2005

ISBN

1-283-26858-2

9786613268587

1-60509-614-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

A BK currents book

Disciplina

336.2/07/0973

Soggetti

Corporations - Corrupt practices - United States

Corporations - Taxation - United States

Tax evasion - United States

Tax incentives - United States

Job creation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Introduction: Money for Nothing; One: The Tax Dodgers Are Coming! The Tax Dodgers Are Coming!; Two: Site Location 101: How Companies Decide Where to Expand or Relocate; Three: Fantus and the Rise of the Economic War Among the States; Four: ""Single Sales Factor"" and the Corporate Assault on the Income Tax; Five: Property Tax Abatements and Your Local School; Six: Subsidizing Sprawl, Subsidizing Wal-Mart; Seven: Loot, Loot, Loot for the Home Team; Eight: Shifting the Burden; Nine: Building a New Consensus for Reform; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I

JK; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

For the past 20 years, corporations have been receiving huge tax breaks and subsidies in the name of ""jobs, jobs, jobs."" But, as Greg LeRoy demonstrates in this important new book, it's become a costly scam.Playing states and communities off against each other in a bidding war for jobs, corporations reduce their taxes to next-to-nothing and win subsidy packages that routinely exceed 100,000 per job. But the subsidies come with few strings attached. So companies



feel free to provide fewer jobs, or none at all, or even outsource and lay people off. They are also free to pay poverty wages with