Feeding at the Tax Payers' Trough

This past Tuesday, JS-Online posted this article:  Sensient CEO paid $8.4 million in 2010.  This is double what he was paid in 2009.  Doubled!  How many of us Middle Class Workers have doubled our salary in a year?  This is just another example of the few rich people owning most of the wealth in our country.


Peter W commented on this article- I couldn't say it any better than he did:
"Every time one of these corporate CEO's outrageoous compensation amounts is posted, an investigation should be conducted to see how much taxpayer support that business receives (loan guarantees, forgivable loans, TIF district, tax breaks, investment credits, etc.)and how much the individual and the corporation pays in taxes. Businesses don't hesitate to feed at the taxpayer trough, but they are extremely reluctant to give any thing back through personal or corporate taxes OR THROUGH GOOD WAGES AND BENEFITS FOR THEIR WORKERS. Corporate profits and CEO compensation packages are through the roof while middle class wages have stagnated (and are even starting to regress!) since the 80s! Wake up middle class and take back your country!"


Want to share your feelings about this as I did?  Here's how:

Sensient Technologies Corporation World Headquarters
777 East Wisconsin Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202-5304
USA

Phone: 800-558-9892
Email: corporate.communications@sensient-tech.com

So who else is feeding from the tax payers' trough?  
Wal-mart


What is particularly sickening about Wal-mart is that they cater to poor people by offering low prices, yet they pay their workers poverty wages to ensure those people stay in poverty and keep shopping at the only place they can afford- Wal-mart.  


Not only that, but Wal-mart has gotten out of paying taxes, which means they're giving nothing to our communities but low paying jobs with no health care, perpetuating the problem of the rich getting richer and the rest of us getting poorer.


My family is boycotting Wal-mart as our way of saying "You can't take away any more of our hard earned money."  We wrote to Wal-mart to tell them so.  Want to do the same?


http://www.walmart.com/   Go to the website, scroll down to the bottom and click on "feedback"


Want to link up with the other boycotts?  Click on this link:  Scott Walker Watch

Need more info?  One Wisconsin Now