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Abigail Spanberger
Abigail Spanberger
stated on June 16, 2022 in an op-ed.:
“The four big meat packers are raking in record profits … ”
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By Warren Fiske • June 30, 2022
Mandela Barnes
Mandela Barnes
stated on May 23, 2021 in Twitter:
“Since 1978, CEO compensation rose over 1,000% and only 11.9% for average workers.”
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By Madeline Heim • June 2, 2021
Van Wanggaard
Van Wanggaard
stated on April 19, 2021 in Statement:
Foxconn “is the largest taxpayer in Racine County.”
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By Haley BeMiller • April 27, 2021
Andrew Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo
stated on November 19, 2018 in a radio interview:
"There is nothing that we have done on Amazon that we have not done with hundreds of other projects."
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By Jill Terreri Ramos • December 7, 2018
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on July 14, 2018 in a speech:
"The three wealthiest people" own "more wealth than the bottom half of the American people."
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By Tom Kertscher • July 19, 2018
Gina Raimondo
Gina Raimondo
stated on January 26, 2016 in economic development report:
"Owen in MA vs. Owen in RI … Advantage:Rhode Island."
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By Mark Reynolds • February 7, 2016
Trebor Banstetter
Trebor Banstetter
stated on February 2, 2015 in in a statement:
A bill to eliminate Delta Air Lines’ jet fuel tax breaks "violates federal law and puts the state at risk of losing critical funding from the Federal Aviation Administration."
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By Nancy Badertscher • February 23, 2015
Paul Ryan
Paul Ryan
stated on September 2, 2014 in a speech:
"Miller Brewing is not a U.S. company any more. Neither is Anheuser-Busch."
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By James B. Nelson • September 8, 2014
One Wisconsin Now
One Wisconsin Now
stated on November 27, 2013 in an email:
"The Walton family, which owns Wal-Mart, controls a fortune equal to the wealth of the bottom 42 percent of Americans combined."
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By Tom Kertscher • December 8, 2013
Charlene Lima
Charlene Lima
stated on June 26, 2013 in a speech on the floor of the Rhode Island House:
Economic Development Commission Executive Director Keith Stokes "sent me a letter and he said the taxpayers will never be on the hook for these bonds" for 38 Studios.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 10, 2013
Gary Sasse
Gary Sasse
stated on February 10, 2013 in an appearance on 10 News Conference:
Of six Rhode Island tax-credit programs worth about $35 million, "three companies got 90 percent of that -- CVS and two companies not even located in the state of Rhode Island."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • February 24, 2013
Dennis Algiere
Dennis Algiere
stated on May 24, 2012 in a letter to the editor:
"The legislature was never given the opportunity to debate or vote on loaning $75 million to 38 Studios."
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By Tom Mooney • June 1, 2012
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on March 29, 2012 in a speech in the Rose Garden:
Last year, "Exxon pocketed nearly $4.7 million every hour."
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By Becky Bowers • April 2, 2012
Dennis Kucinich
Dennis Kucinich
stated on December 15, 2011 in a news release:
"The top 10 most well-paid CEOs in America received a combined $770 million in 2010, while the average American worker’s wage rose just 2 percent."
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By Peter Krouse • January 19, 2012
Jim Sensenbrenner
Jim Sensenbrenner
stated on September 29, 2011 in an interview:
"We have the highest corporate tax rate in the world. It’s 35 percent."
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By Tom Kertscher • October 9, 2011
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
stated on August 29, 2011 in an opinion column:
"The ratio of corporate profits to wages is now higher than at any time since just before the Great Depression."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 1, 2011
Marcia Fudge
Marcia Fudge
stated on March 1, 2011 in an interview on C-SPAN:
"There are corporations in this nation, some of the biggest corporations in this nation, who do not pay taxes."
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By Sabrina Eaton • March 15, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 in the State of the Union address:
The United States has "one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world."
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Barack Obama
Barack Obama
stated on January 25, 2011 in the State of the Union address:
"Two years after the worst recession most of us have ever known ... corporate profits are up."  
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By Louis Jacobson • January 26, 2011
Marcy Kaptur
Marcy Kaptur
stated on October 25, 2010 in testimony given at a public hearing:
Electric utility FirstEnergy's annual revenues are greater "than the GDP of Haiti, Kyrgyzstan, Iceland, or 15 African nations."
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By Sabrina Eaton • November 10, 2010
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