The great American jobs scam : corporate tax dodging and the myth of job creation / / Greg LeRoy
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| Autore: |
LeRoy Greg
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| Titolo: |
The great American jobs scam : corporate tax dodging and the myth of job creation / / Greg LeRoy
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| Pubblicazione: | San Francisco, : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 336.2/07/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Corporations - Corrupt practices - United States |
| Corporations - Taxation - United States | |
| Tax evasion - United States | |
| Tax incentives - United States | |
| Job creation - United States | |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The great American jobs scam |
| ISBN: | 1-283-26858-2 |
| 9786613268587 | |
| 1-60509-614-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910808452903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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