Corporations Fail in America

By Rebekah Rast

“Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive, [it] reeks with injustice and is fundamentally un-American... it has earned a rebellion and it's time we rebelled.”—President Ronald Reagan, May 1983, Williamsburg, Virginia.

The government’s answers to America’s problems are to spend and tax.

It is easy to see the results of those tactics: less productivity, limited competition, fewer jobs and a sinking economy.

These negative results not only affect individual citizens, but America’s corporations as well.

America’s corporate tax rate sits as the second highest in the world at 35 percent; second only to Japan, which is currently in the process of lowering its tax rate.

Though individual taxpayers might not be bothered that corporations in the U.S. face such a high tax rate — in fact, many might be in support of it as some corporations that conduct business internationally pay different rates. But the truth is, the corporate tax rate should be of concern to all American citizens.

After all, who do you think corporations pass their taxes on to?

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Obama’s Labor Board Targets Dana Corp. Ruling that Allows for Secret Ballot

By Kevin Mooney

President Obama’s labor board is now positioned to overturn the landmark 2007 Dana Corp. decision that allows workers to vote out via secret ballot a union that was recognized through the card check process.

This week the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced it has merged two cases, which involve union lawyers with the USW and UFCW who are seeking to overturn Dana ruling that allowed for employees to demand a secret ballot election within 45 days after a union obtained monopoly bargaining status through a card check campaign.

In the USW case, the same Foundation attorneys who originally won the landmark Dana case are providing free legal assistance to Mike Lopez, an employee of Lamons Gasket Company in Houston, Texas, who filed the decertification petition when at least 30 percent of employees in the bargaining unit supported the election. Consequently, there is good reason to doubt that the card check vote accurately reflected workers’ support of the union.

Workers have already used the Dana precedent to demand secret ballot votes and kicked out unwanted unions. Here’s a video report about some Dana Corp. employees in Albion, Indiana who did just that.

Many of the workers say they only signed the cards in response to union organizers visiting their homes not out of a genuine sense of conviction.

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Out of Context, Out of Line

By Robert Romano

You know the campaign season is heated up when politicians resort to the age-old dishonest tactic of misquoting their opponents. Apparently, when the establishment cannot debate challengers on the substance, it instead debates straw men — misleading the American people and wasting everyone’s time.

Take the latest example of Nevada Democrat Congresswoman Dina Titus, whose campaign saw fit to pull out of context the quote of her opponent, Nevada State Senator Joe Heck.

Heck said, “"The role of Congress is not to create jobs, it is to set the conditions under which the private sector creates jobs.” So, government should get out of the way, and let the private sector do what it does best.

Heck continued, further confirming this point, “And you do that through a stable, fair, predictable tax base, you do that by not pursuing onerous regulations on small, medium and large businesses. And that is where we need to get back to, that limited government that sets the conditions for the private sector to thrive.”

But the only part of the full quote that survived the ad that the incumbent Congresswoman used was “The role of Congress is not to create jobs”. The clip stops there, and then the narrator says, “Sen. Heck doesn't get it.”

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ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured editorial from the Las Vegas Review Journal, Sharron Angle’s basis of criticizing the perpetual extension of unemployment benefits is being validated by the evidence:

Reid and the jobless

Is Angle really so 'extreme'?

It was only five weeks ago that GOP Senate hopeful Sharron Angle was subjected to a public flogging for being "insensitive" to the unemployed.

Not only did Ms. Angle say she would have opposed a July Senate bill extending federal unemployment benefits to 99 weeks, she also said that some recipients of jobless benefits were part of a "spoiled" culture of entitlement.

Her Democratic opponent, unpopular Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, jumped all over the comments, as did his many stenographers in the local punditry class. Ms. Angle apologized for using the word "spoiled."

But the potential damage continues.

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Outlook Dimming for Democrats

Just months ago, Georgia's Rep. Jim Marshall faced only faint headwinds as he sailed toward the midterm elections.

The former Macon mayor—and one of Congress's most conservative Democrats—had plenty of cash and no significant Republican opponent.

But in a reflection of his party's fortunes nationwide, Mr. Marshall's prospects have dimmed of late. The three-term congressman now faces an energized foe and the focus of the national Republican Party in a race that polls indicate is increasingly tight.

Left's double standard on Kochs and Soros

I was the main speaker of the night at a fancy dinner. The crowd included millionaire business owners and corporate executives. And the man who introduced me, and who had invited me to speak, was billionaire industrialist Charles Koch.

My topic was what it always is: the evils of corporate welfare and bailouts, and the destructive influence of the Big Business lobby in Washington. In my talk, I blasted "regulatory robber barons" and "subsidy sucklers."

But if you follow the Left's talking points, my talk was part of Koch's "pro-corporate movement."