However, today as corporate defined benefit pensions vanish, national attention is shifting to public pensions and related excesses and abuses.
These facts are leading many Americans to ask themselves: Why am I investing in companies whose corporate transactions benefit our enemies?
The occasional IPO or corporate stock benefit might come their way, sure, but mostly they own bread-and-butter stocks and bonds like everyone else.
Unlike a traditional corporation, a Benefit Corporation has a corporate purpose to create public benefit, which is useful when Delaware says that the only proper purpose is to create private wealth.
Lower corporate rates would benefit taxpayers at all income levels, workers and investors alike.
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Float shrink is the other way of using corporate cash to benefit shareholders.
Some regulators feared that a more perfectly graduated system that used corporate ratings would benefit American banks since more firms are rated there.
Coupon settlements that benefit corporate defendants and enrich lawyers while giving little or nothing to class members are, increasingly, a thing of the past.
Our corporate multinationals do benefit from the weak dollar, but this could end within 12 months if our interest rates levitate and turn competitive worldwide.
There could also be a benefit for corporate stock redemptions that qualify for capital gain treatment.
Admittedly, it is highly unlikely that these reforms will take place soon enough to benefit current corporate restructuring.
For corporate tax reform to benefit U.S. businesses, it will have to shift focus to include small businesses, experts say.
Google analyzes search trends like these for the benefit of corporate marketing departments, so expect to see some ads this tax season playing up the unemployment-taxation angle.
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What was lost in the transition between these two economic worldviews in the last 30 years was a recognition that business is embedded in society, a society ruled by laws that govern behavior and set long-term economic priorities and goals, often to the benefit of corporate America.
The days when only middle-aged white men benefit from wasteful corporate spending are long gone.
We could benefit from a corporate version of that blind- audition idea.
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In the subfield of Management people are much more receptive to the idea that Corporate Social Responsibility should also benefit a firm in terms of its profitability.
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Our goal is for businesses like this to understand the importance of maintaining control of their data, plus to help individual users recognize that they would also benefit from a corporate account through additional features and capacity.
Reducing the corporate income tax would actually benefit more people since the tax is paid by employees in the form of lower wages, by consumers in the form of higher prices, and by shareholders (many of whom own stock through mutual funds in their retirement accounts) in the form of lower returns on their investment.
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Big oil firms would indeed benefit from a lower corporate tax rate.
However, there are more than 130 million working Americans, many of whom would benefit greatly from increased corporate efforts to improve employee health.
Unlike defined benefit plans, where corporate sponsors are ultimately responsible for ensuring that retirement obligations to employees are met, defined contribution sponsors who fail to diligently manage plans heretofore have escaped liability.
Are the Republican Presidential candidates genuinely concerned about small businesses or are they focused on big corporations who would undoubtedly benefit from a lower corporate tax rate and a repeal of the Dodd-Frank Act?
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In the United States, new corporate forms (such as the Benefit Corporation, flexible-purpose corporation, social-purpose corporation, L3Cs and benefit LLCs) have recently emerged to better address the needs and goals of social entrepreneurs, but these changes are not standard across other countries.
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What's more, raising the money through a corporate bond sale gives Apple a tax benefit.
Banks, Wilby says, are going to benefit from the widening of corporate-credit spreads.
McCain says his proposals will create jobs, but his way of doing that involves cutting corporate income taxes, which would mainly benefit better-off people who own stocks.
In some, but not all cases, these activities will benefit the firms for which the corporate actors work.
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As a result, workers, as well as shareholders and other owners of capital, would benefit from any cut in the corporate tax.
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