[Micki]

Got this from Solari so maybe it is a poll that gets some publicity.

You can vote for worst corporation in their Hall of Shame.
http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/categ ... hall-shame

From the brief list of corporations to chose from I think Goldman Sachs stands out for their infiltration and corruption of treasury and general market manipulation.

[mattduke]

Federal Reserve

[Micki]

Fed reserve is not on the list. But GS is subsidary of the same people that run the Fed, JPM and Treasury, so it is the closest you get.

[Daniel_Plainview]

2008: GS, AIG, Countrywide, Fannie-Freddie, Madoff Investments
2009: GS, AIG

[Cynus]

Besides the financial crooks, Monsanto

[ColossalContrarian]

Fed reserve is not on the list. But GS is subsidary of the same people that run the Fed, JPM and Treasury, so it is the closest you get.

The problem with this is that as consumers and tax payers we have no ability to take our business elsewhere and if we choose not to do business with them we go to jail.

[Jotapay]

Halliburton, because of its subsidiaries. It doesn't just supply oil field equipment.

Second is a tie for every goddamn telecom company in the US who spies on citizens illegally without warrants.

[Ludi]

Fed reserve is not on the list. But GS is subsidary of the same people that run the Fed, JPM and Treasury, so it is the closest you get.

The problem with this is that as consumers and tax payers we have no ability to take our business elsewhere and if we choose not to do business with them we go to jail.

Not sure I understand what you're saying. You can engage in the sharing economy and reduce your income to the point of not having to pay taxes, and you won't go to jail.* Can you explain more what you mean by "if we choose not to do business with them we go to jail"?

Thanks.


* is that any easy way to live? No.

[ColossalContrarian]

Fed reserve is not on the list. But GS is subsidary of the same people that run the Fed, JPM and Treasury, so it is the closest you get.

The problem with this is that as consumers and tax payers we have no ability to take our business elsewhere and if we choose not to do business with them we go to jail.

Not sure I understand what you're saying. You can engage in the sharing economy and reduce your income to the point of not having to pay taxes, and you won't go to jail.*

I believe that most American’s engage in a “sharing economy” at some level to support their local community from city parks to law enforcement and funding for the homeless. This does not mean that we as a local community want to pay for AIG’s miscalculations and greed.

Can you explain more what you mean by "if we choose not to do business with them we go to jail"?

Thanks.

The problem with this is that as consumers and tax payers we have no ability to take our business elsewhere and if we choose not to do business with them The Federal Reserve we go to jail.

Spelled out plainly this means that if you don’t pay your taxes you’ll go to jail. The Fed, GS, and JPM are in bed together. So as tax payers we are paying GS and JPM (and AIG) via the Fed. This is taxation without representation. We must pay the “tax” even though we never had the ability vote on it.

If a community wants a local garden they can vote for a local garden and if the vote passes community resource will go toward creating the garden. In the end the people had the choice to spend tax dollars on a garden. They had a choice.

* is that any easy way to live? No.

It’s not teribly bad if you have a job but it’ll be a b!tch when it eventually comes time to pay the piper. This “tax” will probably come in the form of hyper-inflation.

[pup55]

aw, you can't forget that peanut company that knowingly sent out all of those tainted peanut products for several months....

How about whoever was selling that poisoned Chinese dog food a couple of years ago? Iams, I think....

Nestle, infamous for giving free formula to new mothers in Africa, so that they would stop lactating, thus causing their kids to starve when they ran out of formula....

[mos6507]

Spelled out plainly this means that if you don’t pay your taxes you’ll go to jail. The Fed, GS, and JPM are in bed together. So as tax payers we are paying GS and JPM (and AIG) via the Fed. This is taxation without representation. We must pay the “tax” even though we never had the ability vote on it.

You vote in your senators and representatives. They are the ones that pass the laws to determine how much tax you pay and where federal spending goes. Just because you don't personally like it doesn't mean we have "taxation without representation". The country doesn't revolve around your personal wants and needs.

[Micki]

Not if the tax is called inflation and it is created through unconstitutional means and citizens can't even get an audit of the main culprit. That is taxation without representation.

[WildRose]

I have to vote for the tobbaco companies. They advertised and pushed poison that killed 10's or 100's of millions.

Or the timber barons who destroyed forests and fisheries in one short hundred-years span that took millions of years to build.

How about weapons manufacturers who lobby and buy governments to wage wars for profit.

Or Walmart. Cargill. Ford, Chevy, IBM, Microsoft, Apple, etc. etc. for shipping jobs overseas and turning us into a nation of shelf stockers and check-out girls.

Don't forget us all. We are the SOLE PROPRIETORS that allowed it to happen

Excellent summary, you packed a lot into a few sentences.

I would add Nestle and Suez, for privatizing water, selling it back to the world's poor at unaffordable prices and paying shareholders exorbitant amounts while refusing to invest in infrastructure necessary to provide water in the places where they stole it from in the first place.

http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/ ... poster.pdf

[Plantagenet]

Archer Daniels Midland.....corn ethanol producer and purchaser of Illinois and DC politicians.

[eXpat]

I´m surprised none voted for Shell, so there goes my vote. And below some of the reasons
http://www.shellguilty.com/wiwa-v-shell-video/