Posted on 03/26/2011 5:28:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
TAPPER: GE paid no taxes last year. Given that the CEO of GE is the head of the president's competitiveness and jobs council, I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on their paying no taxes last year.
CARNEY: I hope so. But the -- look, I -- Jake, I'll just tell you.
TAPPER: Front page of The New York Times.
CARNEY: But I -- but I can -- I've read the story. The president has said that he is committed to corporate tax reform.
TAPPER: Does it bother him?
CARNEY: I haven't spoken to the president about this.
TAPPER: Why appoint to the head of the competitiveness and jobs council a person who is now the poster child for using the system to get out of paying taxes?
CARNEY: The job council and competitiveness council is designed for just that.
TAPPER: But is there a perception problem at all for the president? He says he wants to take on this issue, and yet --
CARNEY: He very much wants to take on this issue.
TAPPER: It's the second year in a row that GE didn't pay any taxes, and yet he appoints the CEO to the head of his competitiveness and jobs council is -
CARNEY: I think the issue, Jake, is --
TAPPER: -- that the American people --
CARNEY: No, because the president is very committed to addressing this issue.
TAPPER: So much so that he puts the CEO of GE at the head of the Jobs and Competitiveness Council?
CARNEY: Look, I think, you know, Jake, we can do this five or six times, but he is committed to corporate tax reform...
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
“Catapiller is now saying they may leave Ill. because of high taxes. Stupid Democrats”
Dems live in a fantasy world where there are no consequences to their utopian socialist policies. The once great city of Detroit has become a poster child for the failed liberal and union politics that are now bringing down other cities and states. Businesses and people will vote with their feet.
Bob Dole? Is that you?
(Bob Dole asked that in the '96 campaign.)
Also CBS's Chip Reid dared to ask the obvious on Libya about 10 days ago: "Doesn't a (no-fly zone) decision have to be made?"
They're still wimps for putting up with Obama's avoidance of questions.
What’s good for GE is good for the country. Lower all corporate sales taxes to zero.
Carney makes Gibbs look like a Mensa chapter president.
Jake Tapper is always a bulldog.
Yes, at least he knew how to spin. This was simply embaressing.
LOL, Carney can,t get a word in likewise.
oops, embarrassing...
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