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7:34Now PlayingThe new tax law that Republicans have been praising is actually rewarding companies for hiding money overseas. Ring of Fire's Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss this.
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The new tax law the Republicans have been praising is actually rewarding companies for hiding their money overseas. I mean, I don't have ... That's exactly what it is. We're gonna give you a break. We want you to take the money. All that money that you made because of the tax breaks that you said you were going to share with employees. You said you were going to spread the wealth. Well, no, they didn't spread the wealth.
What they want to do is hide it overseas now.I can't make this up. They're following this and here's what. Here's what they're finding. They're finding, first of all that the companies that are that were arguing, "Give us a tax break and it's going to trickle down." The first thing you're doing is they're buying back their own stock. Okay? That's number one.
Number two is they're giving their CEOs more money. They're giving management more money. This is exactly ... And number three, then they hide what they have left offshore, overseas. Then this is how it goes. They come back to the government and they say, they negotiate. Look, you know, was it ... $40 billion dollars as we speak, about $40 billion window is overseas.
Worth of tax revenue.
Yeah, that's all we know of this point. $40 billion. Okay, so $40 billion's overseas being hidden in Ireland or the Bahamas. Somewhere. Somewhere out in Hide Your Money Land.
Okay, so in Hide your Money Land. They then say to the government, "We'll bring it back in if you let us bring it in by paying two percent taxes on it."
They basically ... It's just extortion. First of all, they're breaking the law most of the time if you really followed it, there'd be ways to show they're breaking the law. But when it comes back in, they negotiated with the government, say, you know, give us a break and we'll bring it back.
And just basically holding the US government hostage.
Right? And we've seen it too many times in recent years during the Bush and Obama though, they'll these tax holiday where you can bring it back right now, you're not going to pay any money on it. Just bring it back to the United States.
So one of the big selling points that they used to sell this tax break was we've got companies hiding so much money off shore, which is true, but if we lower taxes, they're going to bring it all back.
And no, because lower taxes is not what corporations want. No taxes is what corporations want. But these idiots who wrote this bill actually wrote this in there. Right now, if you hide your money offshore and bring it back ... or excuse me, before the bill, it was 22%, you paid on it. They lowered it from 22% to nine percent.
So they have actually given more incentive for these companies like [Abvee 00:02:43], that was just exposed in this Reuters report. What they do is, their headquarters is here in the United States.
They're the ones, by the way, that make testosterone, that's killing men all over the country.
Right, so they're based out of Chicago. They do all their work out of Chicago, but they actually claim their headquarter is down in the Bahamas. So that's where all the profits go, all the money goes to the Bahamas. So none of it is technically US income, even though all the business is here.
So now when they bring it back, instead of paying 22%, they'll get to pay nine percent. And because of the way the crazy business laws work, they can show we didn't make a profit in the United States. We made-
It actually shows as a loss and they get to take a tax break on top, on top of the hell, only having to pay nine percent.
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