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Burger King: Enemy of the people
Comrades, there are wreckers in our midst. The industrialist reactionaries at Burger King have declared their intention to abandon the struggle and join the ranks of the enemy in rightist Canada.
That's right. The traitorous corporation Burger King plans to take advantage of the fact that America's English-speaking neighbor to the north maintains the second-lowest corporate tax rate of any G-7 nation. How dare they?
"The iconic American fast-food brand is in talks to buy coffee-and-donuts chain Tim Hortons and move its headquarters to Canada," Forbes reported. If concluded, this deal would create the world's third-largest restaurant company and allow Burger King to take advantage of a tax inversion deal and relocate their headquarters to Canada.
Earlier this summer, the Obama administration threatened to use the power of executive action to limit the ability of American companies to avoid paying America's corporate tax rate by, as the president said, "renouncing their citizenship." According to Business Insider's Joe Weisenthal, Burger King's move is a direct challenge to the White House...Also read: Burger King Wants to Cut its Exposure to Hamburgers, Not Just Taxes
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