Unf*cking Flashback: Corporate (Ir)Responsibility: Parts One and Two.
Unf*cking The Republic
UNFTR Media
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🗓️ 23 March 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Silly season is in full swing so politicians take center stage. But it's important to remember who really pulls the strings and runs the show. This week is an overdue flashback to our Corporate (Ir)Responsibility episodes that have been combined for the first time by the great Manny Faces for your listening pleasure. It's a good refresh on the bad actors that came together to rig the system. We'll be back next week with more original content as we plug away at the border crisis and other pressing issues. For now, enjoy!
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Resources
HBR: Why Are Companies Sitting on So Much Cash?
The Atlantic: When the Top U.S. Tax Rate was 70 Percent—or Higher
Bloomberg Tax: 10 Steps States Should Take to End Corporate Giveaways
Politico: Actually, it was Democrats who killed the 70 percent tax
Foreign Policy: To Pay for the Pandemic, Dry Out the Tax Havens
Tax Policy Center: What is the TCJA repatriation tax and how does it work
Tax Justice Network: Financial Secrecy Index - 2020 Results
OCCRP: Giant Leak of Offshore Financial Records Exposes Global Array of Crime and Corruption
Tax Foundation: How Much Revenue Would a 70% Top Tax Rate Raise? An Initial Analysis
FRED: Unemployment Rate
Trading Economics: Corporate Tax Rate in the United States remained unchanged at 21 percent in 2021 from 21 percent in 2020
BLS: Inheritances and the Distribution of Wealth, Or Whatever Happened to the Great Inheritance Boom?
Tax Foundation: Corporate Tax Rates around the World, 2020
Road & Track: Yes, The Chevrolet Corvair Really Was a Handful to Drive
Book Love
Matt Taibbi: Griftopia: A Story of Bankers, Politicians, and the Most Audacious Power Grab in American History
Jane Mayer: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Zachary D. Carter: The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
Pod Love
Useful Idiots: David Sirota on the SALT Tax Cap, Plus: Is Biden Really the new FDR?
Best of The Left: #1414 Go Home and Go Big (Infrastructure Investment, Jobs and Climate Mitigation)
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| 0:00.0 | A working class hero is something to be. |
| 0:13.0 | Working class hero is something to be. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome back on fuckers. |
| 0:19.0 | Gonna jump right in on this to set the table for this episode. |
| 0:21.9 | So we all heard this one, right? |
| 0:23.4 | So my warning, if you will, to corporate America is to stay out of politics. |
| 0:30.0 | It's not what you're designed for. |
| 0:33.5 | Well, unfuckers, it was bound to happen at some point. |
| 0:35.9 | We got ourselves our very first two-parter. |
| 0:39.5 | This fuckery is so thick and layered, it was simply too much to ingest in one sitting. |
| 0:44.1 | So in this first part, we're delving even further into the tangled web of bullshit that exists |
| 0:48.4 | in the relationship between corporate America and our beloved government. You can certainly |
| 0:52.3 | pick up with this show if you're new to the program. And if you are, a hearty, how the fuck are you? Regular listeners have had primers on what |
| 0:59.1 | we're about to highlight in this two-parter with a few of our past episodes, in particular, |
| 1:03.6 | capitalism, the American propaganda machine, Einrand was a dick, and America Inc. where we |
| 1:08.6 | explored the evils of privatization. |
| 1:15.4 | Hopefully by now some very obvious themes have developed in your minds, which we'll build upon today. But like I said, this should be able to stand on its own if this is your very first unfucking. |
| 1:21.5 | Remember to hang on to the end of the show for listener shoutouts in book love and podlove, |
| 1:25.1 | where we highlight books and podcasts that we think unfuckers will dig. As always, you can keep up with us between episodes by joining our |
| 1:31.1 | fast-gr-gr community of subfuckers over at unFTR.substack.com. Membership there will always be free. |
| 1:38.0 | Now, today's rundown is pretty packed. We'll start by discussing the political and economic |
| 1:41.7 | philosophy that has guided the nation for the past 50 years and created a scenario where corporations reign supreme and workers have been |
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