We will discuss ways to improve the business provisions of the u. S. Tax code. With an eye towards creating jobs and boosting wages for American Workers and improving over all business climate. This part of the ongoing effort following years of tax hearings and last weeks hearing on individual reform. To draft and report tax reform legislation later this year. Members of both paerts recognize the need to reform the way we tax business in the United States. As a former president obama noted when discussing his own frame work, the Current System quote does too little to encourage job creation and investment in the United States while allowing firms to benefit from incentives to low cat production and shift profit over sea. Unquote. Many elements of a particular business tax burden depend on the companies organizational forum. For example, sea corporations are taxed at Corporate Tax rate. The top federal statutory Corporate Income tax rate has been 35 . Since 1993. And with state taxes ad
We will discuss ways to improve the business provisions of the u. S. Tax code. With an eye towards creating jobs and boosting wages for American Workers and improving over all business climate. This part of the ongoing effort following years of tax hearings and last weeks hearing on individual reform. To draft and report tax reform legislation later this year. Members of both paerts recognize the need to reform the way we tax business in the United States. As a former president obama noted when discussing his own frame work, the Current System quote does too little to encourage job creation and investment in the United States while allowing firms to benefit from incentives to low cat production and shift profit over sea. Unquote. Many elements of a particular business tax burden depend on the companies organizational forum. For example, sea corporations are taxed at Corporate Tax rate. The top federal statutory Corporate Income tax rate has been 35 . Since 1993. And with state taxes ad
My name is Justin Desmangles i of the chair of the foundation celebrating the 41st year. [applause] for decades. I want to and extend my gratitude to an hour founder our founder who was one of the great artists, warriors of our time, ishmael reed is with us today. [applause] i also want to think our friends here the center for being so generous in in particular the director and to fellow board member presently the poet laureate at the center cisco jazz festival San Francisco jazz festival. [applause] the american book awards are hosted by the jazz center. Jazz has the uniquely american art form the american is a and the thread of telling it like it is to invite openly all cultures to develop and to seek peace with one another. And with that National Conversation that is exacerbated by a violent political crisis that has taken hold of the country in the rest of the world and with the viciousness of the american book awards and the before Columbus Foundation is it midways medicinal to he
50 years ago to today, that is the only politician that has ever threatened to sue me for writing what he didnt like. I said, donald, you are a public figure. That would mean you have to prove that i deliberately lied into it. He said, i know im a public figure and i will see you anyway. I think this is indicative of his character and authoritarian approach, you do it the way i wanted or i will make life go for you. Brian what was your reaction when he said that . David people have threatened to sue me a lot of times. It goes with the job. Brian 1988 in Atlantic City usage you met up for the first time. David i have left the Los Angeles Times where i had spent 12 years to go to Atlantic City. I believed we were going to see casino gaming spread across america which we did and i wanted to examine whether government could really clean up his business that was traditionally run by crooks. In a couple days, i met donald. I immediately recognized he was pt barnum, selling tickets to the ama
Peaceful political magazine about all of his convictions to a major drug trafficker to con artists, swimmers, american mafia, russian mobsters and tunnels that send an email asking if you would like to comment and he called me in essence is is, there are a lot of things i like but if you dont stop what you are going to write i am going to sue you. From working on the city council 50 years ago to today, that is the only politician that threatened to sue me. I said, donald, you are a public figure. That would mean you have to prove that i deliberately lied into it. He said, i know im a public figure and i will see you anyway. I think this is indicative of his character and authoritarian approach, you do it the way i wanted or i will make life go for you. Brian what was your reaction when he said that . David people have threatened to sue me a lot of times. It goes with the job. Brian 1988 in Atlantic City usage you met up for the first time. David i have left the Los Angeles Times where