Over the years, dozens of American companies have filed papers to trade in their U.S. corporate citizenship for citizenship in tax haven countries like Bermuda.
All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it’s part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.
Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.
I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.
Between income taxes and employment taxes, capital gains taxes, estate taxes, corporate taxes, property taxes, Social Security taxes, we’re being taxed to death.
I didn’t want to get typecast doing an item number in ‘Corporate,’ so I didn’t do it then.
Command-and-control isn’t the kind of corporate culture people want to be in anymore.
What’s new is that the White House itself has now been corporatized. It’s not politicians working for the corporate interests. They are the corporate interests. That’s where Bush came from, and Cheney and Rumsfeld.
To be able to sit in Donald Trump’s apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.
I’m challenging the assumption that you need to be a dog-eat-dog person to survive in a corporate environment.
If a farmer is happy within a corporate set-up, he can choose that. If he is happy with his arthiya, he can stick with that.
Despite the debt, the traffic, the one-party rule, the taxes, and the eagerness of politicians to overwhelm small businesses and large corporate job producers with red tape and unnecessary regulations, the Golden State is still the most beautiful place to live and work in the United States.
I know the ugly history of corporate welfare, and that’s not New York City’s future.
In corporate life, I have noticed, it is getting harder and harder to say that things are bad.
Corporate totalitarianism means total control by corporate interests. If they want a war, they get a war. If they want GMOs, they get GMOs. If they want fracking, they get fracking. If they want big banks to control our monetary policy, big banks control our monetary policy.
I want to get rid of corporate welfare.
When I first entered the corporate world, doing good and making money were seen as separate and contradictory threads. Challenging that notion set my career – and life – on a new course.
The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you’ll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that’s exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.
When you have corporate influence on our government outweighing the influence of citizens, that’s terrifying. This is something we have to make a big, big noise about.
The TV industry is a corporate world. People come, people go. They leave for growth, money, and many other reasons.
Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.
The upper 1 percent, the people down on Wall Street, the corporate executives, they’re the people that control this economy.
As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant – whether it produces chemicals or records – accept responsibility for what it produces.
In the Dobbsian view of America, the mainstream media isn’t evil because it’s liberal but because it’s lazy. And Washington is utterly corrupt, has sold out, Democrats and Republicans alike. And corporate America is an insatiable pig.
I think, definitely, this country needs a lower corporate tax rate and tax reform so that we can get our profits that we’ve made overseas back into the country without heavy penalties. And if that happens, I think that would be very good for the market and all of that.
Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
You know what an effective deterrent to crime is? Jail! And do you know what kind of criminal penalty actually makes people think twice about committing crimes the next time? The kind that actually comes out of some individual’s pocket, not fines that come out of the corporate kitty.
We need a pro-worker trade approach that puts American jobs – not corporate profits – front and center.
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
If we had zero corporate tax in this country, tens of millions of jobs would get created in this country for no other reason.
We want to cut the corporate taxes, which will bring back growth.
Any skill requires training. I took the corporate approach to acting and wanted to develop the necessary skills.
Actually, I’ve been doing stand-up on the quiet for the last 15 years, in the form of corporate gigs.
Texas has no income tax, which is a big draw for corporate executives who do business there. But it’s hardly tax-free. The property taxes are high for a Southern state. The sales taxes are high. One study found that the bottom 20 percent of the Texas population pays 12 percent of its income in state and local taxes.
I was a corporate hatchet man, and it’s impossible for me to turn that off. It’s this curse when I walk into businesses: ‘That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.’
Most people seem unaware that corporate influence and wealth has taken over public policy, such that government policy now favors the wealthy few at the expense of the people.
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
I wish every international or national corporate would be given a rule to set up companies in rural areas, where they would have to provide hospitals, schools, low-cost housing and free medical care, training, and then employment – but not on agricultural land.
Everybody loves to receive gifts and free goodies, and often parents are loath to look out for hidden strings attached to corporate freebies.
It is an intellectual and moral vacuity that has crippled what the World Social Forum’s founders sincerely hoped would produce some sort of democratic alternative to what they saw as the heartless corporate model of globalization.
There’s a glee in building a world that is constructed on corporate synergy and all the luxuries of our modern life, and then just tearing it apart. I enjoy that!
The whole sector of public dialogue has been totally contaminated, deliberately, by the corporate sector. The whole purpose is to sow confusion and doubt, and it’s worked.
Half the shows on Comedy Central are just multi-cam blue sets, and they kind of look like game shows from the ’90s. It’s like, ‘Why do such a bland corporate aesthetic when the sky’s the limit with what you can do?’
Corporations are created by the people, acting through their governments. We grant them corporate charters that confer certain legal rights and privileges, like the ability to enter into contracts, limited liability and perpetual life.
Basic human needs like food cannot be corporate questions.
Lots of women candidates get compared to one another because there’s so few women in office and positions in corporate America.
It is not good thinking – either at the corporate level or at the personal level – to believe you can simply walk away from your circumstances.
As a creative individual, I really go out of my way to avoid the corporate scene in terms of songwriting. If the first question is how much money is it going to make, I’m going to be in trouble anyway.
My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.
President Trump is draining the D.C. swamp by fighting against corporate welfare.
I had, at a point in time, decided not to write on the corporate world. But if people expect me to set stories in a work environment, then why go away from it?
What I decided was I’d be happier not being in the confines of a corporate infrastructure producing music. That’s when I was free, and it opened up the door to have a different personality and incarnations. That’s really when I had success in my music life. I was able to license my music.
The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
The question shouldn’t be ‘Are we guilty about our colonial past;’ it should be ‘Why aren’t we more guilty about our corporate present’?
