http://www.thenation.com/blog/160023/bps-oil-spill-tax-credit-matches-epas-entire-annual-budgetThousands of young voters rallied at the White House this Tax Day to demand President Obama stand up to Big Polluters and make them pay their fair share. During the day of action, a flash mob, led by US Uncut’s Carl Gibson, successfully shut down a BP gas station in response to the company’s $9.9 billion tax credit from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which nearly matches the EPA’s entire annual operating budget.
Polluters marched in the streets, chanting, “Make polluters pay, not the EPA.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpURgYpkuqEAuthor Nicholas Shaxson, whom I previously interviewed for this blog, also participated in some guerrilla activism with US Uncut at a Verizon store in the District. Verizon is a multibillion-dollar corporation that pays lower tax rates than you do, and the company is able to do this by creatively redirecting its profits to their foreign wireless partner, and favorite target of the UK Uncut movement, Vodafone.
US Uncut snuck Shaxson, who is on the tail end of his book tour, into a Verizon store and set up a table onto which they dumped copies of his book, Treasure Island, which details the nefarious tax dodging habits of the world’s elites and corporations. Shaxson started signing away.
US Uncut DC - Verizon Tax Day Action
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUnfUY6paEU More at the link......
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