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Earlier Start Time for Bulldogs – Marlies at Bell Centre
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BULLDOGS ANNOUNCE TIME CHANGE FOR MARCH 15 GAME AT BELL CENTRE
MONTREAL, QUE. – The Hamilton Bulldogs Hockey Club announced today a time change for its game at Bell Centre in Montreal, Que. on Sunday, March 15, 2015 against the Toronto Marlies. Game time has been moved from 2 p.m. to 1 p.m. ET.
Tickets for this game start as low as $15.50 and will go on sale on Saturday, Oct. 4 at noon at Bell Centre box office and online at www.evenko.ca.
Hamilton Bulldogs 2014-15 season tickets, flex tickets, group tickets and single-game tickets are on sale now. For more information, call 1-866-DOGS-TIX or visit hamiltonbulldogs.com.
Listen to all Bulldogs regular season and post-season games live on Hamilton's AM 900 CHML, on www.900chml.com or watch live on www.ahllive.com. Catch every Friday night home game live in high definition on Cable 14.
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Hamilton Bulldogs 2014-15 Schedule Released
Post author By Dale Lamontagne
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The 2014-2015 AHL schedule is now out.
MILTON, ONT — The highly anticipated 76 game, 2014-2015 regular season American Hockey League schedule was released this morning, and we finally get to see who and where the Hamilton Bulldogs will faceoff with in the 2014-'15 campaign.
The Bulldogs will open up the season on October 11th in Rochester against the Americans, and then their back-to-back home opener weekend will be on Friday, October 17th against the Toronto Marlies and then a tilt against the Rockford IceHogs on Saturday Oct. 18.
Schedule notes:
The Bulldogs will meet the Toronto Marlies 12 times
The Bulldogs will have the opportunity to play two games in NHL arenas this season, including one in Montreal at the Bell Centre (their NHL affiliate Montreal Canadiens) against the Toronto Marlies. They will also play at First Niagara Centre, the home of the Buffalo Sabres, against the Rochester Americans.Americans on October 29th.
The Bulldogs longest home stand of the 2014-15 campaign goes from January 9th, 2015 until January 23rd, 2015, a total of seven games
Hamilton's longest road trip will last 19 days, starting on March 10th, and ending on March 28th, a total of 8 games.
76 regular season games will be broadcast live on AM 900 CHML, 900chml.com and on AHLLive.com. Select games will be broadcast live on Cable 14 (locally in Hamilton.)
Games By Month Breakdown:
October: 8
April: 8
Full Schedule from Hamilton Bulldogs Media Release:
HAMILTON BULLDOGS 2014-2015 REGULAR SEASON SCHEDULE
(All times local to home team, NHL affiliate in brackets)
Saturday, October 11th, 2014, 7:05 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres)
Friday, October 17th, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, October 18th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – Rockford IceHogs (Chicago Blackhawks) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Friday, October 24th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Saturday, October 25th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – San Antonio Rampage (Florida Panthers) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Sunday, October 26th, 2014, 3:00 p.m. – San Antonio Rampage (Florida Panthers) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Wednesday, October 29th, 2014, 7:05 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres) (First Niagara Center in Buffalo, New York)
Friday, October 31st, 2014, 12:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Charlotte Checkers (Carolina Hurricanes)
Sunday, November 2nd, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Charlotte Checkers (Carolina Hurricanes)
Tuesday, November 4th, 2014, 10:15 a.m. – Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Friday, November 7th, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – Adirondack Flames (Calgary Flames) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, November 8th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – Adirondack Flames (Calgary Flames) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Thursday, November 13th, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at St. John's IceCaps (Winnipeg Jets)
Friday, November 14th, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at St. John's IceCaps (Winnipeg Jets)
Sunday, November 16th, 2014, 3:00 p.m. – Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Wednesday, November 19th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Utica Comets (Vancouver Canucks)
Friday, November 21st, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Sunday, November 23rd, 2014, 3:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Friday, November 28th, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Lake Erie Monsters (Colorado Avalanche)
Sunday, November 29th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – Lake Erie Monsters (Colorado Avalanche) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Adirondack Flames (Calgary Flames)
Friday, December 5th, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, December 6th, 2014, 3:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Sunday, December 7th, 2014, 3:00 p.m. – Texas Stars (Dallas Stars) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Wednesday, December 10th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Adirondack Flames (Calgary Flames)
Friday, December 12th, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, December 13th, 2014, 7:35 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres)
Wednesday, December 17th, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – St. John's IceCaps (Winnipeg Jets) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Friday, December 19th, 2014, 7:30 p.m. – St. John's IceCaps (Winnipeg Jets) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Sunday, December 21st, 2014, 3:00 p.m. – Texas Stars (Dallas Stars) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Friday, December 26th, 2014, 1:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Saturday, December 27th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – Adirondack Flames (Calgary Flames) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Tuesday, December 30th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Rockford IceHogs (Chicago Blackhawks)
Friday, January 2nd, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Chicago Wolves (St. Louis Blues)
Saturday, January 3rd, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Milwaukee Admirals (Nashville Predators)
Friday, January 9th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Utica Comets (Vancouver Canucks) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, January 10th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Lake Erie Monsters (Colorado Avalanche) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Sunday, January 11th, 2015, 3:00 p.m. – Oklahoma City Barons (Edmonton Oilers) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Wednesday, January 14th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Milwaukee Admirals (Nashville Predators) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Friday, January 16th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Grand Rapids Griffins (Detroit Red Wings) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, January 17th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Grand Rapids Griffins (Detroit Red Wings) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Friday, January 23rd, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, January 24th, 2015, 3:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Friday, January 30th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Iowa Wild (Minnesota Wild)
Saturday, January 31st, 2015, 12:30 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Iowa Wild (Minnesota Wild)
Friday, February 6th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Iowa Wild (Minnesota Wild) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, February 7th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Lake Erie Monsters (Colorado Avalanche)
Tuesday, February 10th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Iowa Wild (Minnesota Wild) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Friday, February 13th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Monday, February 16th, 2015, 1:00 p.m. – Utica Comets (Vancouver Canucks) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Friday, February 20th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Grand Rapids Griffins (Detroit Red Wings)
Saturday, February 21st, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Grand Rapids Griffins (Detroit Red Wings)
Tuesday, February 24th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Utica Comets (Vancouver Canucks)
Friday, February 27th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Charlotte Checkers (Carolina Hurricanes) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, February 28th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Charlotte Checkers (Carolina Hurricanes) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Sunday, March 1st, 2015, 4:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Utica Comets (Vancouver Canucks)
Wednesday, March 4th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Adirondack Flames (Calgary Flames) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Friday, March 6th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, March 7th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Utica Comets (Vancouver Canucks) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Adirondack Flames (Calgary Flames)
Friday, March 13th, 2015, 7:05 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Rochester Americans (Buffalo Sabres)
Sunday, March 15th, 2015, 2:00 p.m. – Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs) at Hamilton Bulldogs
(at Bell Centre in Montreal, Quebec)
Saturday, March 21st, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at San Antonio Rampage (Florida Panthers)
Sunday, March 22nd, 2015, 4:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at San Antonio Rampage (Florida Panthers)
Wednesday, March 25th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Adirondack Flames (Calgary Flames)
Saturday, March 28th, 2015, 3:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Toronto Marlies (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Thursday, April 2nd, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Chicago Wolves (St. Louis Blues) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Saturday, April 4th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Utica Comets (Vancouver Canucks) at Hamilton Bulldogs
Tuesday, April 7th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Utica Comets (Vancouver Canucks)
Friday, April 10th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Texas Stars (Dallas Stars)
Saturday, April 11th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Texas Stars (Dallas Stars)
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Oklahoma City Barons (Edmonton Oilers)
Friday, April 17th, 2015, 7:30 p.m. – Hamilton Bulldogs at Lake Erie Monsters (Colorado Avalanche)
Saturday, April 18th, 2015, 7:00 p.m. – Lake Erie Monsters (Colorado Avalanche) at Hamilton Bulldogs
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IceCaps game report
Top Line Carries Bulldogs to Win Over Crunch [with AUDIO]
Post author By Dan Kramer
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By Dan Kramer, Senior Writer, All Habs Hockey Magazine
POST-GAME AUDIO: Gabriel Dumont | Mike Blunden | Louis Leblanc | Sylvain Lefebvre
MONTREAL, QC – Coach Sylvain Lefebvre has long talked about needing a 60-minute effort, and it seems his team is finally listening. For the second night in a row, the Hamilton Bulldogs competed hard from puck drop to final whistle, defeating a quality opponent in the Syracuse Crunch by a 4-1 final. The game was the Bulldogs' first of two trips to the Bell Centre in Montreal this season, and represented their third straight victory, coming immediately on the heels of what had been a six-game losing straight, and propelling the team back above the .500 mark.
Mike Blunden has brought life to Gabriel Dumont and Justin Courtnall, with the three forming Hamilton's best line this week. (Photo by Rabita Naqvi | Rocket Sports Media)
Though the most dominant players on ice in a sloppy opening period were the Crunch's Vladislav Namestnikov and Nikita Kucherov, it was Hamilton's most dangerous line – that of Mike Blunden, Gabriel Dumont, and Justin Courtnall – that opened the scoring. Dumont led a great individual rush, opening up a 2-on-1 with Blunden, and forcing the lone defender to commit before dropping the puck on to Blunden's stick. From there, all Blunden had to do was fire a shot through Cedric Desjardins and up just under the bar for a 1-0 lead. Blunden, Dumont, and Courtnall have been Hamilton's best unit since being put together a few games ago.
If the first period was relatively even, Hamilton took the play to Syracuse in the second. Desjardins held the Crunch in the game as long as he could – notably robbing Greg Pateryn on a hard shot from the blueline and Christian Thomas on a quick one-timer – but in a period where the 'Dogs outshot Syracuse 15-8, he could only resist for so long. At the 11-minute mark, Martin St. Pierre led a rush and dropped the puck on to the stick of Morgan Ellis, who stepped right into a big one-timer, netting his first goal of the season.
Next it was the top line going back to work, as Geoff Courtnall pressed hard on the forecheck, and caused the Syracuse defense to turn over the puck. It bounced out to Blunden, who returned the earlier favour to Dumont, receiving a pass with an empty side of the net in front of him, and making no mistake in one-touching it for his first of the year and a 3-0 advantage.
Syracuse looked like they had gotten one back shorthanded, when the Kucherov – Namestnikov pair led a breakout, but after a first shot block by a diving Christian Thomas, the goal scored when the puck was kicked back out front was waved off as the net had been knocked off its moorings. It was the second disallowed goal for the Crunch on the night, after earlier having one reversed due to incidental contact with Dustin Tokarski in front of the net.
Hamilton reverted into a defensive shell for much of the third, clearly intent on making Tokarski earn the win. The goaltender stood tall until a goalmouth scramble with under five to play saw a puck trickle through him, with credit given to former Hab defenseman J.P. Cote. While losing the shutout was unfortunate for Tokarski on a personal level, the Bulldogs held the lead the rest of the way, with Blunden finishing a great night at the office by hitting an empty net. The 4-1 victory was Hamilton's third straight straight win, coming immediately on the heels of what had been a six-game losing straight, and propelling the team back above the .500 mark.
Other than the sixty minute effort, the talk post-game focused on the jackpot Lefebvre hit by putting Dumont, Blunden, and Courtnall together. Not only were they the team's spark offensively, but they matched up against Kucherov and Namestnikov most of the evening, shutting down the pair that looked far too good to be playing at the American Hockey League level.
"I just saw him out there. We practice 2-on-1s pretty often, and we try to go together because we know we're on the same line. I knew he was gonna post out there. I knew if I had [that defenseman] beat, if I left it there for [Blunden], he was gonna score," described Dumont of his set-up on Blunden's first marker.
"Justin came in and we didn't know much about him. He fought for his place on the team, and since the beginning of the year, he improves every game. He works very hard. Fearless. He completes us pretty well since we play a pretty simple north-south game," Dumont added on the third member of his trio, whose name didn't appear on the scoresheet on this night, but whose eff0rt was instrumental to creating Dumont's goal.
Blunden had equally as glowing reviews for his linemates. "Justin and Gab just work their butts off. I try to do the same thing. We work the D down low, and we scored a couple of goals tonight. We talk a lot, and it's going well, so hopefully we can keep it going. I've really enjoyed our line."
The Bulldogs complete a "home and home" with Syracuse, travelling to visit the Crunch Saturday night, with the Tampa Bay Lightning affiliate looking for revenge.
Tags Bell Centre, Cedric Desjardins, Dustin Tokarski, featured, Gabriel Dumont, Greg Pateryn, Hamilton Bulldogs, Jarred Tinordi, Justin Courtnall, Michael Blunden, Morgan Ellis, Sylvain Lefebvre, Syracuse Crunch
Bulldogs to Play Two Games at Bell Centre in 2013-14
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Bulldogs to play host to Syracuse and Binghamton at the Bell Centre in 2013-14
Thursday, 19.09.2013 / 4:46 PM / News
MONTREAL – The Hamilton Bulldogs, the Montreal Canadiens' AHL affiliate, will play two games on the Bell Centre ice during the 2013-14 regular season. Under the direction of former Canadiens defenseman and Hamilton head coach Sylvain Lefebvre, the Bulldogs will successively host the Syracuse Crunch, Tampa Bay's AHL affiliate, on November 22 and the Binghamton Senators, Ottawa's AHL farm team, on February 21, 2014.
(Photo by Alain Roberge / La Presse)
The two games from the Bulldogs 2013-14 regular season schedule will give Montreal hockey fans an opportunity to see some of the organization's prospects. Last year, the Bulldogs had a 1-1 record at the Bell Centre winning 3-2 against the Rochester Americans and dropping a 4-1 decision to the Crunch.
It will be the Bulldogs' 10th and 11th contests at the Bell Centre in the history of the AHL franchise. The Bulldogs first ever match-up at the Bell Centre was played on March 18, 2007 versus the Syracuse Crunch, just a few weeks before the Canadiens' AHL affiliate captured the first Calder Cup in franchise history. Carey Price, the Canadiens current goaltender, was a member of that championship Bulldogs squad in 2006-07.
Tickets for those two match-ups starting as low as $15.50 will go on sale on Saturday, September 21 at 12 p.m. (noon). Family packages are available for as low as $99 and include four tickets in the reds, four hot dogs and four soft drinks. Also, fans purchasing tickets for both Bulldogs games at the Bell Centre will enjoy 15% off.
For more information on the Hamilton Bulldogs visit www.hamiltonbulldogs.com.
Tickets available at the Bell Centre Box Office on Saturday September 21 at 12 p.m. (noon).
Order online at: www.evenko.ca or by phone at (514) 790-2525 and 1-877-668-8269
Ticket prices: $15.50 to $69.50
Tags AHL, Bell Centre, Binghamton Senators, Bulldogs, Carey Price, Habs, Hamilton Bulldogs, Montreal, Montreal Canadiens, Sylvain Lefebvre, Syracuse Crunch


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Authorities identify driver found dead after fatal hit-and-run in Glendale
by: Eric Ruble
Posted: Nov 18, 2020 / 03:26 PM MST
Updated: Nov 18, 2020 / 03:26 PM MST
LAKE COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Authorities have identified the man found dead in a burned vehicle that was allegedly involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in the Denver area earlier this month.
According to the Lake County Sheriff's Office, 75-year-old Richard Randolph, of Denver, was identified using dental records.
The hit-and-run occurred about 5:40 p.m. on Nov. 2 near the intersection of Leetsdale Drive and South Cherry Street in Glendale. The driver struck a 74-year-old woman and her dog before leaving the scene.
The woman was taken to Denver Health Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead. The dog died at the scene of the crash.
According to the Glendale Police Department, witnesses were able to provide a limited description of the driver's car and part of its license plate. Authorities issued a Medina Alert, asking the public to look out for a white Hyundai Sonata.
On the morning of Nov. 4, a vehicle matching the car's description was found engulfed in flames along Highway 91 in Lake County.
"Once extinguished it was determined that there was a human body inside. The vehicle suffered extensive damage due to the fire," police said at the time.
The sheriff's office said video evidence supports the theory that Randolph set the fire himself and his death was a suicide. It also confirmed that Randolph is the car's owner.
"Lake County Sheriff's Office executed a search warrant on the vehicle on Thursday, November
12th. Additional evidence collected during that search is being analyzed to determine any
associations with the Glendale hit-and-run accident," the sheriff's office said in a statement.

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The main reason you'll want to download this update sooner rather than later is that it brings the new Photos app that is replacing iPhoto. iCloud Photo Library is also now out of beta, and these updates will work with the new iOS 8.3 update for your iPhone and iPad.
There have been many cautionary tales about Apple's cloud services and photo management apps, but I think they nailed it this time. I'm happy with iCloud Photo Library because it's seamlessly integrated with my iPhone's camera and photos – I don't have to manually upload anything, and I don't have to think about managing photos.
I just finished upgrading and I'm waiting for all my photos to be uploaded from the new Photos app to iCloud Photo Library.


Arent there better ways to use trillions of dollars than to have them invested in the markets on behalf of a few dozen firms shareholders?
If Fortune 500 companies paid a mere 6 percent on their offshore profits — about as much as they pay, on average, outside the U.S. — they'd owe $620 billion in additional federal taxes, says a report published this week by Citizens for Tax Justice. That would be enough to finance the entire U.S. federal education expenditure for more than five years. Yet this is a political nonstarter in the U.S. and other jurisdictions where these companies operate. So here's a modest proposal: Why not cut out all the hypocritical noise about tax freeloaders and just declare big corporations' profits tax-free? The argument would run like this.
These companies are all household names, darlings of the U.S. corporate sector, producers of things we couldn't do without. Our lives wouldn't be the same without Apple, Google or Cisco, but also without Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola or Wal-Mart. We wouldn't have the most potent drugs without the seven pharmaceutical companies on the list, and global finance would arguably be different without Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. The giants project American soft power — which, as Andrew Rose of the University of California, Berkeley, showed in a recent paper, produces a quantifiable effect on the nation's exports. It could also be argued that they provide valuable public services, even though doing so is highly profitable.
This elite group employs millions of people in the U.S. and beyond. It provides training and invaluable experience to many of those workers, allowing them to set up new businesses and scale up smaller companies. They also bolster the service sector wherever they go. San Francisco residents may complain about the gentrification companies such as Google bring, but no town or national government would ever object to one of these companies setting up a presence.
The cash these industry leaders generate is often spent on life-changing innovations such as self-driving cars or medicines to treat formerly incurable diseases. Intel, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, Google and Merck are on the list of offshore cash hoarders, but also among the top 10 research and development spenders worldwide.
They might be spending even more to pay employees and finance research if they didn't have to maintain expensive tax optimization arrangements — Pfizer, for example, has 151 tax haven subsidiaries, and PepsiCo has 132 — and spend millions of dollars on lobbying to prevent a harsher tax climate from being imposed. Of the companies on the top cash hoarders list, four — Google, United Technologies, General Electric and Dow Chemical, plus the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, which includes another seven — are among the 20 top lobbying spenders in the U.S.
Citizens for Tax Justice, a Washington-based advocacy group for tax fairnesss, call for an end to U.S. companies' ability to accumulate untaxed earnings overseas, an end to corporate inversions, an end to shifting intellectual property to tax havens. President Barack Obama has called for a repatriation of the offshore profits, to be taxed at 14 percent rather than the full 35 percent corporate tax rate. None of this is likely to happen, at least while Republicans dominate Congress. Whatever they may say about it, they appear to be generally persuaded by arguments like those listed above. The lobbying dollars are apparently well-spent.
The European Union's fight against tax evasion in the form of sweetheart deals multinational companies have received from Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg will probably force some of these companies to rejigger their tax structures, but European countries will not stop offering "innovation boxes," which allow companies to reduce tax on profits from new technology, and other enticements to keep multinationals operating there. It's better to charge them very little tax than to lose them.
In short, there's a lot of murmuring and indignation, but there are few results. The cash is still there, providing liquidity to financial markets as it's invested from the offshore accounts.
So why shouldn't the U.S. simply declare corporations greater than a certain size — say, members of the Fortune 500 — exempt from corporate tax? Sure, the U.S. government would lose some cash, and it would be a disaster for Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, where Fortune 500 companies supposedly earn high multiples of the local gross domestic product. Yet the absurdity and embarrassment of companies setting up obvious tax avoidance structures would be eliminated. Companies would strive harder to get into the Fortune 500 club; there would be an enormous incentive for businesses to innovate and grow.
Is it fair to reward companies that have already reached the pinnacle at the expense of those still struggling? Does it make sense to stop taxing a firm just because it has merged its way to the top? Doesn't the admission that big corporations are more equal than others just because of their size sound wrong? Aren't there better ways to use trillions of dollars than to have them invested in the financial markets on behalf of a few dozen firms' shareholders?
I bet you're wondering all of the above. And yet that's how the current system works, more or less, with a little cunning, a bit of deception and a lot of big-corporation arrogance. It only works because most people are somehow happy to pay more taxes than Apple or Coca-Cola does. There is simply not enough public outrage to produce serious pressure. It appears, then, that we're happy with a big corporation tax exemption.


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