Forum Post: Boycott list
Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 13, 2011, 12:46 p.m. EST by Dymmesdale
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The 1% still holds power over us as long as we continue to patronize them and buy their products/services. There needs to be a boycott of those institutions, but we also are responsible for protecting the businesses of those of the 99%. Most people will not know the difference, or where the line is drawn. Can we publish a list of companies to boycott? I know there has been a lot of talk about banks such as BofA or Chase, but what about companies like Wal-Mart, Microsoft, or Sony? Who exactly is the 1%? We all need to know this, and I don't think very many of us definitively do.
Don't forget to include Google, Facebook, Microsoft and others who use complex schemes to (technically legally) shelter billions in profits offshore and video game makers who abuse tax breaks intended to promote lab-based research to write off all of their software development as "R&D" to avoid paying their "fair share."
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/technology/rich-tax-breaks-bolster-video-game-makers.html?pagewanted=all
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-shows-how-60-billion-u-s-revenue-lost-to-tax-loopholes.html
Corporations can't do anything without the government's blessing. You're barking up the wrong tree. The problem is government.
The corporations own the government....no matter which end you start at you will come up with slime.
I'm not barking up any tree. My only point was that people don't necessarily associate some of the worst offenders with the what they consider "corporate greed." Kind of hypocritical to be complaining on your Facebook page about the tax avoidance of some company that you Googled up on your Windows 7 laptop and then going to play with the xBox.. ; )
Here is a start: www.getmoneyout.com
Well, if you OWS truly despised the 400 Richest Americans, here's what you should boycott:
will any of you OWS ppl boycott them? NO.
Boycott government.
I think it's almost impossible to boycott every horrible corporation without living in a cave in the middle of nowhere. We really need to tell our politicians to close tax loopholes that let these corporations get away with what amounts to tax evasion.