Matt Taibbi on Countdown-"Evil Corporate Tax Holiday Deal Still Alive" (with video)

MiniRtist with video (07:26) from Current TV.

Howie P.S.: Taibbi writes about this in latest post on the Taibblog:

For people interested in this story, I definitely recommend reading this Bloomberg article focusing on Cisco, one of the biggest lobbyers in favor of the tax holiday. This is a company whose CEO, John Chambers, wrote an editorial last October in the Wall Street Journal predicting that the tax holiday would generate a trillion dollars in repatriated earnings, money that Chambers insisted would outdo even Barack Obama’s stimulus as a job-creation engine...MORE...

"Business: Record Profits Not Enough" (with video)

Jonathan Chait:

It's historically unusual enough that we live in a period of record corporate profits coinciding with stagnant incomes. What's amazing is that the business world views this situation as symptomatic of insufficiently pro-business policies, and, further, that this complaint has received a widespread and generally sympathetic hearing in the political media. MORE...

Howie P.S.: Here's video (00:09) of Ted Kennedy's question that seems to apply here.