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



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Autore: LeRoy Greg Visualizza persona
Titolo: The great American jobs scam : corporate tax dodging and the myth of job creation / / Greg LeRoy Visualizza cluster
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
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
Titolo autorizzato: The great American jobs scam  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-26858-2
9786613268587
1-60509-614-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808452903321
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