Occupy Wall Street MYTH: Corporations Don't Pay Taxes

Corporations do pay taxes. In the billions.

From The Blaze: Occupy Dayton Harass Black Friday Shoppers at Target and Walmart

Black Friday shoppers in Dayton, Ohio, were in for a rude awakening when Occupy Dayton protesters (we’ve reported on their antics before) entered a local Walmart and Target and began mic-checking and berating individuals and families.

On the protest group’s YouTube page, a five and a half minute video has been posted. In it, Occupiers document and promote the torment they attempt to inflict on shoppers.



At the 40 second mark, you’ll see the first clip, which was taken at a local Target store. Around 1:08, a male voice can be heard asking, “Ready?” Within seconds, the protesters begin yelling, “Mic check!” Then, they launch into their seemingly endless chant:

“Hello Daytonians. We have a message for you. This will only take a moment. It is shameful that you spend your hard-earned money at a corporation who does not care about your family. They insult the 99 percent. They pay little or no taxes, while profits soar. Our tax money goes to our public schools. We find it an outrage that you continue to shop here in support of a corporation who does not support you.”

So what happened to protesting bank bailouts? Oh, that is sooo September 17. The malcontents have shifted their focus toward condemning average American citizens who are trying to get in some holiday shopping.

Large "big box" stores are popular because they often carry enough merchandise and offer sale prices for popular items. Would that not be considered "caring" about hard-working families?

As for the "little or no taxes" lie -- try this on for size: In 2009, Walmart paid $7.1 billion in taxes. Yes, that's right, little anarchist. A bit more than what you owe for your college tuition loan. CVS, which has a pre-tax income of $5.9 billion, pays $2.2 billion in taxes.  Most of these mammoth corporations pay a tax rate of around 32% and higher.

Somehow, these dense Occupy Wall Street protesters fail to grasp that much of the taxes paid by corporations go to the government which ultimately trickle down to programs. Sales taxes benefit the states. However, politicians make sure to get a nice, fat slice of that money as their salary and benefits. Pelosi's plastic surgeon needs to be paid, you know.

Good night, the thought of Pelosi not being able to afford more plastic surgery is worth it. Down with corporations!

Why Occupy Wall Street Protests Are The Susan Lucci of Marxism

Susan Lucci, is a soap opera actress who was nominated 19 times for a Daytime Emmy before finally winning. She kept doing what she did best and eventually, snagged the award. Marxism has tried to topple the United States of America in the past but this time, we have something we didn't have before. The Internet.

Below are portions from Andrew Breitbart's book, Righteous Indignation: Excuse Me While I Save the World!: 

But just because Marx's dialectic materialism had been proved false, and just because soon the new Soviet Union would be slaughtering its own citizens at record rates, didn't mean that the Marxist intellectuals were going to give up on the worldwide revolution.

That was where Antonia Gramsci and Gyorgy Lukacs came in.

Gramsci was an Italian socialist who saw tearing down society as the necessary precondition for the eventual victory of global Marxism. Marxism simply hadn't won because men were weak. And men were weak because they were the products of a capitalist society. "Man is above all else mind, consciousness," Gramsci wrote in 1916. "That is, he is a product of history, not of nature. There is no other way of explaining why socialism has not come into the existence already." (Christopher Lasch, Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged, New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2001, p.86.)

Lukacs's view was so influential that for a time, he actually became deputy commissar of culture in Hungary, where he proceeded to push a radical sex-ed program encouraging free love and rejection of Judeo-Christian morality. In that role, he tried to live out his ideology of destruction: "I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution... A worldwide overturning of values cannot take place without the annihilation of the old values and the creation of new ones by the revolutionaries." (As quoted in Chilton Williamson, The Conservative Bookshelf, Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 2005, p. 207.)

If you think the above sounds eerily familiar, you're right. It's the mandate of the Occupy Wall Street protest. Marxism never died. It just went behind the curtain and changed costumes.

Marxism hates freedom and individuality. It depends upon groupthink. It is why an Occupy Wall Street protester can only spout off talking points given to them from their "facilitators." It is also why they can't articulate any clear objectives to their protest.

The whole point of Occupy Wall Street isn't to protest the injustice of banks being bailed out by the government. It isn't even to champion the "99%" who are ticked off about foreclosures and job loss. The whole point of Occupy Wall Street instead is to destroy society by leeching a city's coffers for police protection and kill the ideals of hard work, faith, ethics, and morality.

Everywhere an Occupy Wall Street protest is held, you see the truth. In New York City, they clogged up the sidewalks and subways as average citizens tried to make their way home after their workday. They persist in painting a corporation as "the enemy" when in fact, a corporation has individuals working for it. In essence, they hate the "collective" (to use their language) of a corporation because they want to replace it with their own repressive ideology -- Marxism.

What are "old values?" The same values that made the United States of America a great nation is viewed by these ingrates as oppressive. Civility is the first to go. Marxists believe in a lot of yelling and screaming because they think you're stupid and will only understand them if they shout. Reasonable debate also has fallen victim to the Occupy Wall Street crowds. Any honest question of their purpose quickly deteriorates into childish name-calling. There is no substance to them. Only anger. And Marxism, quite frankly, is really boring.

When one looks at history, it's easy to see why Marxism doesn't work. People enjoy the fruits of their own labor. They like having the freedom to say "no" or "yes" to work. There will be consequences to those answers, but in the the U.S., everyone has the freedom to pursue their own happiness in whatever way they deem desirable.

The freedom that United States citizens enjoy are the envy of the world. There are dark forces intent on robbing us of that freedom. Don't let them get away with it.

How Occupy Wall Street's Anti-Consumerism Targets You As the Enemy

It isn’t a secret anymore that the Occupy Wall Street protest isn’t about protesting bank bail-outs from the government. And if it’s about the lopsided “control” that corporations have in our political arena, it is merely an offshoot of OWS’s real target.

If you’re a normal American who has a full-time job and seeking to better your life; and if you desire to enjoy the fruits of your own labor – you are the enemy.

Why else would they clog up the New York City subway system as tired employees made their way home, now having their evening commute disrupted by a bunch of whiny communists? Why else would they attack conservative blog conferences where the attendees were overwhelmingly believers in the capitalist system?

Why else would they decide to descend upon malls on Black Friday to lecture shoppers on the selfishness of their actions?

Because you are the enemy.

Occupy Wall Street, the brainchild of anti-consumerist Canadian, Kalle Lasn, has many branches to its tree but all lead to the same root. Resentment and class envy.

If you examine what was often called “the American Dream,” it focused on working hard and saving enough money to buy a home. That home represented something remarkable, something worthy of pride and happiness. It represented achievement.

Achievement used to mean something in this country. For the 100% American, it still does. But if your eyes have been open over the last few decades, you know the concept of achievement has taken a beating. One of the most glaring examples are the schools that insist on awarding students with trophies for just showing up. They refuse to keep score during athletic events because “everyone is a winner.”

There has been a slow, systematic attack on achievement because once you call mediocrity an achievement, then true exceptionalism is no longer recognized.

Quality and excellence also fall victim to such defeatist philosophies. When Paul Revere returned from the American Revolutionary War, he realized that his previous occupation – silversmithing, was too expensive for the economic depression. He instead turned toward iron and brass, opening his own business with his sons and producing more than 900 bells for the thriving church bell market. He became known as one of the best metal-casters for not only bells, but entered into the copper market and opened the first copper mill south of Boston.

Why is that important? Because Paul Revere’s dedication toward producing only the best and highest quality metal instrument was what made him successful. His company, Paul Revere & Sons, eventually merged into a large national corporation, Revere Copper and Brass, Inc. That in turn led to the development of the first copper-clad cookware, which we know now by the name, Revere Ware. The company still exists today as Revere Copper Products.

Would Paul Revere have achieved so much if he was told that a mediocre church bell was acceptable for selling? Would his name still be remembered today if he produced shoddy work? The 100% American responds with a hearty, “Hell, no!”

When a business owner is successful, they typically respond by investing more in the business itself so it can grow. Achievement is the driving force of a business’ profits. When an employee rises through the ranks of a business, earning a higher wage, achievement is the driving force of their success.

Which brings us back to consumerism.

A business without a buyer is quite bluntly, not a business. A business cannot exist without its customers. And customers will buy a business’ products or services out of need but often, as a way to demonstrate their success to the world. A Chevrolet Sonic and a Lexus LS will both get you to your destination, but the Lexus proclaims to the world that you reached a place where you’re able to afford a more expensive ride. It is a sign of achievement.

Such representations of achievement are what fuels our economy. Someone in California is depending on their job, which is building a Lexus. They in turn earn enough money to buy their children toys that in turn, provide jobs for the company that makes the toys. These articles of achievement; whether large or small, bring joy to our lives and a sense of satisfaction for a job well-done.

But the Occupy Wall Street protesters hate it. (Interestingly, they don’t hate their iPods or reject the status of owning their MacBook Pros and schmoozing with other Mac users.)

They would love nothing more than a defeated American economy to just trudge toward a corner and die. They believe that living in a dirt-floored hut with no electricity is somehow more virtuous than living in a 2400 square-foot home with all the trimmings. And they’re wrong.

We say enjoy the holidays. And if it includes purchasing gifts for your loved ones and you’re able to afford buying them an iPad, go for it. Don’t for one minute, allow the sullen, resentful OWS protesters ruin your achievements.

Occupy Wall Street's Wrongheaded 'Black Friday' Protest Exposes Founder's Agenda

Occupy Wall Street vowed to "occupy" malls across America in their ongoing anti-greed, anti-corporate, anti-capitalist protest. Except it isn't working. At least according to a FOX News article that reported that as of mid-morning, most malls hadn't seen too much action from the Great Unwashed.

However, one thing the "Black Friday Protest-That-Never-Happened" did do was once again expose the man behind the organization of Occupy Wall Street, Kalle Lasn.

In 2007, Lasn, a former marketing consultant, called for a national "Buy Nothing Day" on November 23, 2007, which was "Black Friday." Lasn is a Canadian and has a special loathing toward consumerism. He thinks it makes us bad people. From the NYT article (emphasis ours):

Mr. Lasn, from Vancouver, says the targets of the movement are the wealthiest one billion people on the planet, “the 20 percent who consume 80 percent of the goodies in the global marketplace.” The goal, he told me, “is to create an economy and a culture in which it eventually becomes cool to consume less.” (The magazine, with about 120,000 readers, two-thirds of them in the United States, is not for profit, but it does sell advertising… as does this newspaper of course.)

Isn't that interesting? On one hand, Lasn wants to condemn buying anything but yet his site, Adbusters, sells ads. Sounds like consumerism to us.

In case our Canuck Commie missed it: Retailers weren't bailed out like the banks -- which the press believes is the primary focus of OWS. In fact, retailers have this little game with the state going on called SALES TAX. We know, it's insidious. Diabolical, even. Those states that do such a thing use their sales taxes for public services such as:  supporting state law enforcement, fire and police departments, state employee wages, maintenance of city infrastructures such as highways and bridges, and entitlement programs.

So in other words, without sales taxes, a state would be in a whole lotta hurt.

And those who are in the Occupy camp wouldn't have anyone to provoke into a fight because all the police would probably be home, defending their own property from these zombie anarchists.

Hello, World.

"The whole world is watching!" - Occupy Wall Street protesters

Tired of hearing that phrase? Uttered by protesters as they taunt police officers into violent confrontations, the accusation sounds overly dramatic. Except we know the whole world is watching. And what do they see?

People who continue to increase their attempts to gain attention and support by escalating violence. People who welcome with open arms Socialists, Communists, Marxists, and union thugs. People who are open about hating capitalism, Israel, and Jews. People who feel that our current system of government is so flawed that we must replace it with something else. People who are openly anarchist, only focused on destroying America's government so they can usher in complete collectivism.

And of course this is the same group of people who mocked the Tea Party for being "violent" and "racist." Except the Tea Party didn't have rapes going on at their rallies, let alone the rampant drug use and theft. Not only did the Tea Party avoid clashes with the police, they cleaned up after themselves at their rallies and didn't camp out for days on end, making a nuisance of themselves. They also stayed on point with their message and avoided crashing conferences that had nothing to do with that message; let alone follow four-year old children  to school and harass them.

Well, this blog is a response to the "occupiers."

Many of us from the Tea Party have also been upset with government irresponsibility and overspending. We've been shocked as the massive mistake called Obamacare was shoved through the system, through back-room deals and threats to politicians to vote for it -- or else. We've been stunned as we've watched those who hate our country rise to positions of power and influence within the White House. And now we observe how a well-orchestrated protest from the radical left has suddenly riveted the country and the world. The fact that Occupy Wall Street was started by a Canadian who hates capitalism and is itching for a revolution should tell you something.

But here's the shocker.

The Occupy Wall Street movement does not accurately represent "the 99%."

Many Americans, though frustrated with our sluggish economy, stunning salary increases for big corporate CEO's, and for corporate and union control of our government through large donations; do not feel that Occupy Wall Street represents them. In fact, many are repulsed by the protesters' rage toward the police, their cavalier attitude toward rape, drugs and crime, and their obvious anti-Semetic tone (even if it is supposedly "only a few" who do it). Their lack of hygiene isn't winning any friends, either.

So, who are we?

The simplest way to describe those of us who desire government fiscal accountability and limited intervention in our personal lives would be this:

We are 100% American.

This means we like the U.S. Constitution we already have. We don't want a new political system. We like being a Republic (as opposed to Direct Democracy) because we realize that if the majority of the people suddenly decided to lynch people who love jellybeans, then without a law prohibiting such a thing, people who love jellybeans would be lynched. Substitute the word "jellybeans" with "God" and you can see how this would be an even worse scenario.

100% American means we love our country and do not feel like we owe the world an apology. In fact, if anything, much of the world owes us a bit of gratitude for all the times we've helped them. They may criticize the United States but when you want to get rid of a despot, who do you call?

The answer is not Greenland.

100% American means we understand American exceptionalism. It means we know our history shows our mistakes but we have always aimed toward "doing the right thing." Ask any 100% American what that means and they'll know. Perseverance, diligence, putting family as a priority, owning responsibility, defending the weak, humility, compassion, personal liberty, democratic ideals -- all of these are just a few of the traits that make America exceptional.

100% American means we understand the importance of hard work and personal responsibility. We don't like hand-outs. In fact, we'd rather eat ramen noodles in the dark than ask for government aid. We understand that sacrifice and suffering shapes the character of men and women. We understand that tough times never last but tough people do. We are, at times, astonishingly optimistic. We also understand this country was founded by those who gave 100% toward building it and received 100% of the blessings from doing so.

100% American means we will do whatever it takes to preserve the freedom in this country, to protect its sovereignty, and to repel radical elements such as Socialism, Communism, and Marxism so as to keep what our Founding Fathers gave us.

It is said that when Ben Franklin exited the first Congress of the United States of America; a woman asked, "What kind of government have you given us, sir?"

"A Republic, madam," Franklin replied, "if you can keep it."

We pledge our allegiance to do just that.