Sanders is simply a moron firing scattershot leftist blather with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.
If you’re a corporation you’re greedy, you’re a scourge and you don’t pay taxes and you must be punished.
The senator’s uninformed views are, in a word, contemptible. Here’s why.
His first accusation – that Verizon doesn’t pay its fair share of taxes – is just plain wrong. As our financial statements clearly show, we’ve paid more than $15.6 billion in taxes over the last two years – that’s a 35% tax rate in 2015, for anyone who’s counting. We’ve laid out the facts repeatedly and did so again yesterday (see “Sen. Sanders needs to get his facts straight” at Verizon.com/about/news). The senator has started to fudge his language – talking of taxes not paid in some unspecified “given year” – but that doesn’t make his contention any less false.
Sen. Sanders also claims that Verizon doesn’t use its profits to benefit America. Again, a look at the facts says otherwise. In the last two years, Verizon has invested some $35 billion in infrastructure — virtually all of it in the U.S. — and paid out more than $16 billion in dividends to the millions of average Americans who invest in our stock. In Sanders’s home state of Vermont alone, Verizon has invested more than $16 million in plant and equipment and pays close to $42 million a year to vendors and suppliers, many of them small and medium-sized businesses. Just yesterday, we announced a $300 million investment to bring fiber to the city of Boston,
Bernie is a one trick pony. He has been blathering socialist mantra forever.
I blame the Verizon strike on him.
He has never had a real ‘man’s’ job.
“I challenge Sen. Sanders to show me a company that’s done more to invest in America than Verizon.”
Pow, right in the kisser!
gasp – you mean a politician LIED?
GASP!
I would love to see Verizon sue Sanders personally for slander.
“sanders is simply a moron”
enough simply said!
The operative phrase is “fair share.”
Unto itself, it is meaningless.
Verizon’s answer is that they paid their “legal” share – as opposed to their “fair” share – which, to the socialists, will appear to be “spin.” Socialists have no shame, no morals, no sense of reality – and thus, cannot follow reason or logic – and words mean only what they wish them to mean at the moment they’re muttered.
Verizon has hired thousands of useless, affirmative-action employees in the past couple of decades, and deserves NO sympathy (a recent mayoral candidate’s, for DC, claim to fame was that she hired 800 minority employees into Verizon – ALL of whom were worthless, I’ve been told).
A pox on BOTH their houses …
izlamo delenda est …
socializmo delenda est …
My wife quit Verizon after our second child was born. She was a full time, stay at home mom for 13 years before returning to the work force. She just got a small raise (medical billing clerk) last month and is now making the same salary she had 30 years ago at Verizon. Say what you will, they paid well; those people on strike are nuts. Jobs like that don’t grow on trees.
To a socialist like Bernie a “fair share” is at least 110%. Typically hypocritical for some one who has never met a payroll or provided a “benefit” from his own pocket. It’s so easy to spend OPM.
Just another US company trying to confuse Bernie with facts.