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Fiscal Cliff is Diversion from Corporate Tax Avoidance
“To some extent, the fiscal cliff debate is a farce,” said Eric
LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA Network, which estimates
that corporations and wealthy individuals avoid paying $150 billion a year
to the U.S. Treasury through loopholes and offshore havens. “If we were
to close the corporate offshore tax loopholes, not only would the fiscal
cliff debate be over, but we would have more revenue than we would
know what to do with,” said LeCompte. The fiscal cliff “gap” represents
only $109 billion.
UN Urges All Nations Provide Universal, Affordable Healthcare
The United States joined in a United Nations resolution calling on
member countries to establish “universal” and “affordable” healthcare
systems. However, “the United States has actually taken us in the opposite
direction,” said Dr. Margaret Flowers, of Physicians for a National
Healthcare Program. Obamacare “further privatizes health care,” said
Flowers. “Every industrialized nation that has an effective, universal
national healthcare program uses a publicly-financed, not a market-based,
approach.”
UN Sets Goals for Haiti Cholera, But Avoids Culpability