{"id":8363,"date":"2014-04-15T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8363"},"modified":"2014-04-15T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T17:22:49","slug":"taxes-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8363","title":{"rendered":"Taxes, taxes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after tangling with the IRS again for a measly 500 bucks or so&#8230;it just pissed me off when I was reminded about GE and how they have been able to manage their tax liability&#8230;and, by manage I mean avoid paying any taxes at all. Over the past three years, on 28 billion dollars in income, GE has paid no taxes&#8230;in fact, they have used the code written for them to get over 3 billion dollars in refunds&#8230;yep, folks&#8230;you and I are paying GE 3 billion dollars out of our taxes to bribe them to stay in the US&#8230;not that being here is the reason the company exists&#8230;that US markets have gotten it to where it is today&#8230;no, it is from their wonderful business savvy&#8230;if you can&#8217;t recognize it, that last part was all snark&#8230;the infrastructure, the education, and the market they depend on is all paid for by us and they use if for free since they don&#8217;t pay taxes&#8230;talk about free riders and takers&#8230;.how many people would it take to take the 3 billion dollars they take every year? Parasites all&#8230;&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after tangling with the IRS again for a measly 500 bucks or so&#8230;it just pissed me off when I was reminded about GE and how they have been able to manage their tax liability&#8230;and, by manage I mean avoid paying any taxes at all. Over the past three years, on 28 billion dollars in income, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=8363\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Taxes, taxes&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[396,149],"class_list":["post-8363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-general-electric","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8365,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8363\/revisions\/8365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}