Such disparities invite corporations to spend whatever they believe necessary to further entrench the corporate state.
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Rather, in his corporate state he wanted to preserve Portugal as a rural and religious society where industrialisation and other modernising influences would be excluded.
But the US, with its current bi-partisan drive towards a corporate state, may soon be engaged in a race to the bottom with these other countries.
While the intellectual origins of the corporate state go back much further, the first serious attempt to implement such a system was in 1920s Italy by Benito Mussolini.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is now proposing to make his state the 10th in America with no state income tax, phasing out both personal and corporate state income taxes.
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The biggest victims of such policies are frequently, not incompetents and illiterates, but those who teach their pupils to question authority and undermine the official ideology of the corporate state.
On these pages, I have often lamented the growth of the American corporate state, the increasingly cozy, mutually supportive relationship between politicians and a select group of large corporations and unions.
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Like Europe, the ultimate price for the growing corporate state will be paid by the American consumer (in the form of higher prices, reduced choice, and foregone innovation), and the American taxpayer, who is already facing an enormous bill from the direct subsidy of favored constituents.
During the '50s and '60s, the endowment funds of Harvard, Princeton and Yale owned bonds, as did most corporate and state pension funds.
Gross total debt is the sum of consumer, corporate, state and municipal debt plus U.S. government debt including that portion held by Federal agencies and trusts.
This is all on top of the U.S. corporate income tax rate, which counting state corporate rates is nearly 40%, the highest in the world now under President Obama, except for the socialist one party state of Cameroon.
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America today suffers from virtually the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, with federal and state corporate rates averaging nearly 40% nationwide.
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This is on top of the current corporate tax rate of nearly 40% nationwide on average, counting state corporate tax rates.
In addition, American business currently suffers virtually the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world at nearly 40%, counting state corporate rates on average.
America suffers from virtually the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, nearly 40% on average counting state corporate income taxes.
The combined U.S. federal and state corporate income tax rate is approximately 40%.
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U.S.-based multinationals face a 35 percent statutory rate, the highest in the world when combined with the average state corporate tax.
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The richest ones are deleveraging both corporate and now state balance sheets.
And when state corporate income taxes went down, public firms increased investments by just 1.6 percent versus 7.4 percent at the matched private firms.
But Mr Medvedev is unlikely to stop the hostage-taking, corporate raids by state agencies, rent-seeking and corruption that have become part of a system.
However, Audrey Gaughran feels that the guidelines will be undermined because "both company structure and globalised company operations facilitate corporate evasion of state jurisdiction".
The principle of fiduciary duty governs directors under state corporate law.
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The U.S. suffers virtually the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world, nearly 40%, with a 35% federal rate, and another nearly 5% in state corporate rates on average.
This is all on top of the U.S. corporate tax rate, which under President Obama is now the highest in the world, except for the socialist one party state of Cameroon, at nearly 40% on average, counting state corporate taxes.
Since American corporate law is a state-by-state affair, the legal side of what B Lab does gets complicated.
The legal side of becoming a B Corp is a little complicated, since corporate law is a state affair.
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Amazon.com, with corporate offices in Washington state, has an "Associates Program" where others put such links on their websites.
They are heads of state, corporate CEOs, newly minted billionaires and world-famous entertainers.
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