At a time when the American economy is struggling and government at all levels is cutting spending for popular services like education, people are asking why Walmart, the largest U.S. employer, with its $3.8 billion dollars in profits last quarter, should receive any taxpayer subsidies. Walmart’s reliance on government money to build new stores—it has collected over $1.2 billion in tax breaks and economic development subsidies since the early 1980′s, about $70 million annually
Federal taxes are due on April 15, but a growing number of Americans are refusing to pay as an act of resistance against President Donald Trump’s administration. Attorney Rachel Cohen is one of them. Cohen is an organizer who has been pepper-sprayed and tear-gassed for protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s violent deportations. This year, she decided she needed to withhold payment of her federal tax dollars as another form of protest.
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