Disney CEO: U.S. taxes are 'too high' and 'ridiculously complex'

Disney CEO Bob Iger thinks companies -- including his -- are simply paying too much in tax to Uncle Sam. Iger told CNNMoney on Thursday that high corporate tax rates in the U.S. are "anti-competitive," and described the country's tax system as "ridiculously complex."
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EXCLUSIVE — Displaced Disney Cast Member: How They Replaced Me, Other Americans, With Cheap Foreigners On H1B Visas

I used to have a dream career at one of Americas most iconic and admired companies. Twenty years of hard work, technical skill building, the fostering of relationships and a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology guided me to a coveted position as an Information Technology Engineer for Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida.


On a sunny Monday morning in late October of 2014 I drove down the interstate toward the huge 40 square mile Disney Orlando, Florida property to my office. Ten days earlier Bob Iger, CEO of Disney, had just announced that the company’s earnings were up well over 20 percent for the quarter and this was just one among a long series of record breaking financial results for the company.


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FP: Mr. Scrooge's capitalist myth

FINANCIAL POST/OPINION, 12/22/2009 by Peter Foster - "Disney's 3-D adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is terrific. What continues to amaze is how this classic is treated not primarily as a tale of redemption but, according to Agence France Presse, as 'a biting indictment of 19th century capitalism.' ∴ First, we might note that nobody profited more from the impact of capitalism on literature than Charles Dickens. As for Scrooge, how does this peculiar man -- 'solitary as an oyster' -- represent an indictment of capitalism except for those who continue to embrace the nonsense notion that commercial society eradicates goodwill?" Read more at the Financial Post...

If you believe that free people and free markets go together, then you'll enjoy the end of this article. --bc

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