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Our Multinational Fast Food Corporations are Dodging Billions in Taxes

Not only is the overconsumption of fatty, salty, and sugar-laden foods literally killing us, our multinational fast food corporations are dodging billions in taxes; earning enormous profits through franchising fees, then diverting the profits to overseas operations where they can’t be taxed by the U.S.

Consumerism is the mantra; insidious marketing is everywhere. Fast food chains providing cheap food stuffs to Americans who can afford little more ignore both the physical welfare of our citizens and the fiscal health of our country. Read the following articles and share your thoughts.

Fast food companies are dodging billions of dollars in taxes by registering their products as "intellectual property" and by diverting profits offshore. So the next time you're biting into a Big Whopper, know that you're making their headquarters in Switzerland very happy! | Susie Madrak, Crooks and Liars

From Crooks and Liars

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Institute of Medicine Report Highlights $750B in Unnecessary Healthcare Spending

After years of corporate abuse, there can be no alternative to a government payer health care system without private sector reforms. According to an Institute of Medicine report, wasteful spending and inefficient uses of technology accounted for $750 billion in unnecessary health expenditures last year.

This system is bankrupting our nation morally, financially, and physically. As discussed in Patriot Acts, until we address core issues—why our costs are so high, why our outcomes are so poor, and why, as a nation, we’re in such bad shape—there can be no meaningful reform.

"America spent $2.6 trillion on health care last year; about one in every six dollars went into the health-care system. A third of that spending — a full $750 billion — did nothing to make anyone healthier." Sarah Kliff, Washington Post

From The Washington Post

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‘Fourth-meal’ marketing campaigns wreaking havoc on U.S. health.

Fast-food marketing campaigns that encourage Americans to “super-size”, and now, to enjoy a “fourth-meal”, are wreaking havoc on U.S. health care. No wonder the obesity rate in children has more than tripled in barely a generation.

As if our population wasn’t already a health care disaster thanks in part to our poor diet, sedentary lifestyle, increased exposure to chemicals and toxins, and persistent overmedicating. Will we be able to stop this epidemic before its too late?

From Salon

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