in taxes you see according to a new analysis by the institute on taxation and economic policy while zoom reportedly posted $660000000.00 of pretax profits for 2020 an exponential increase from its 16000000 in pretax profits in 2019 the company effectively dodged paying a massive tax bill on those profits by quote the companies that lavish use of executive stock options zoom's income tax reconciliation says it reduced its worldwide income taxes by 300000000 in 2020 using this stock based compensation method and then use the old amazon net flix 0 tax 2 step of accelerated depreciation combined with research and development tax credits all of that together results paying 0 federal corporate income taxes while raking in

$660000000.00 in profits and my friends would zoom did with that company did it is all perfectly legal meanwhile pro publica is now reporting that as the united states' internal revenue service a bill forever new services ability to audit the rich crumbles its scrutiny of the pour has held steady in recent years and that according to data released by the i.r.s. last week millionaires in just 2018 were about 80 percent less likely to be audited than they were in 2011. yes my friends right now if you were making $20000.00 a year under here in the u.s. you are facing the same if not more scrutiny and potential i.r.s. audit on your taxes than if you're say jeff bezos or. so all the rest of the news media destructs this would be talk of banning assault weapons or trump's new adventures and social media companies let's let's follow the

money and start watching the hawks. was on a cd you st. peter so let's see this is joyce state see. grace see this least systemic deception is to late show which. some things are just as. well however the watching. over her and i'm in these across so many should look at that zooms we all those whom we've been using assume everybody uses what seems left right and center since the start of a covert 600000000 in profit 0 federal and she's zoom has found a way and i know that there were so many people who came after and rightfully so donald trump are basically shipping the shaken not me in his taxes but it seems like there are so many major corporations that have gotten away with doing very similar things specifically is problematic because they became the name of the game

for all things teleconferencing and video conferencing over the past year there's not been a time in history and zooms been around for years now where zoom had the amount of usage globally not just in america but they've had within the past year and to see more and more users to see their public shares go up dramatically i wish i hadn't invested it is very frustrating that bay are not paying their fair share it and you know the trad the and what really got me the tragedy of it is it's all perfectly legal they're not doing anything wrong but you know it's not like who they're being shipped. you know the i.r.s. needs to look into what they know it's all perfectly legal for them not to pay any taxes that's how the system here in the united states has it set up is that if you you know shift and move and declare this and say this guess what you make 600000000 you don't get to pay any perpetual corporate income taxes. it's interesting too when you really look the last year the top one percent of taxpayers by income were audited by the i.r.s.

at a rate of about 1.56 percent. recipients of the meanwhile the people making about $20000.00 or less in this country were audited at an annual at a rate of about 1.41 percent so it's really interesting to me is that the people who have no money were getting audited about the same rates as the people with all the money in the world exactly and have us the a lot faster and you know a lot of these are people who are in the top 5 percent the top one percent it's you and i are at kind of track that it catches up to them most of the income earner earners who are in the low income class or in the middle class it typically ranges that in 2 years i think that they're ready to come in you know put the clamp on you said very different it's incredible some of the run why in the democrat of oregon and one of the ranking members on the senate finance committee committee when talking about this quote while the wealthy now have an open invitation to cheat low income taxpayers is taxpayers are receiving heightened scrutiny because they can be

audited far more easily burning sanders chimed in these room news and said quote in a tweet said if you paid $14000000.00 in high in a month presume pro membership you actually paid more to zoom than it paid in federal income taxes even as admitted 660000000 alberni is honestly right there is through you as a subscriber paid more her to zoom than zoom paid to help about this country and in the tax dollars know it absolutely ridiculous and should all be upset and yes. while most of the courtroom. newsworld has rightfully been focused on the early stages of the trial of police officer derek shaaban for the murder of george floyd up in minneapolis minnesota there is another trial that. not surprisingly isn't getting nearly enough media attention in this commentators eyes i'm talking of course about the trial of just plain maxwell yes jeffrey epstein is right hand gal and alleged recruiter of young teenage girls for jeffrey and his circle of rich and

famous friends very salacious and vicious appetites that trials and it's very early stages. for the upcoming trial that's going to be held in new york but it's already it's already getting controversial you see both the u.s. department of justice and ms maxwell herself have been petitioning the court to keep redacted many of the names personal information and details of the case from public eyes the daily beast reports that quote u.s. district judge allison j. nathan largely sided with the department of defense on proposed redactions to its filings in the case and that the judge also allowed for additional material to be redacted at maxwell's request of maxwell's request u.s. district judge nathan wrote quote those portions of the transcript which were redacted in these civil matter concerning privacy interests and their disclosures would merely serve to cater to a craving for that which is sensational and impure the court does concludes that

such redactions are justified are they joining us now to break down what this all means as a legal and media analyst lion-el of light only if a queue is always for joining us sir. they give you impure. we would on the one what i want to know you've been following this case as well as jeffrey steam saga as a whole what do you make of this ruling by judge mate and should the public be shielded from the important details of this court case given you know we have the public's apparence craving for things that are so sensational or impure well the 1000000 dollar legal answer to every legal question is it depends what is the information you want to release confidential informants information that could lead to the deaths of of critical witnesses but i've never heard anybody say it's so a shoots it's impure let me also go back to

a couple other things which i find 1st of all this photo you see this diskette you for looks like linda lavin from alice who is this have you ever heard of a non photo booking photo what is i don't understand velvet art next john gotti was was hit with when everybody to tom de lay rush limbaugh anybody who was ever ever arrested in the history you always wanted to see the booking photo except hers now i don't want to be conspiratorial but some of my friends in the know say unity thing she's in brooklyn but i don't want to go there because i don't know let me bring you up to this one she's charged with there it is who is this my aunt phebe anyway she's charged with 4 counts she's charged with enticing a minor transporting a minor conspiracy to commit both and get this. lying on a deposition she's the only person i think in the history of american jurisprudence

who was charged with lying if there was a court just impaneled to handle people lying with definitions depositions you would have a 247 courtroom for that so the question is she is a keen pin in this she is a codefendant she aided and abetted jeffrey absent she wasn't this socialite fall in. entice or who enabled oh she is as guilty as he is now the question is why aren't they saying to her listen we're going to grant you were muni you have your small potatoes give us all the information where are the videos where are the some drives where his hold his planes everything was a recording studio where is this was this a honeypot was dismayed to whatever they're charging her with these 4 frankly

piddly offenses and they're worrying about she's not going to be granted bail but the question i'm going to i have is this is this is the biggest she is she and these women they see used the big sister i'm ok she was like a stalking horse come on cheech she was so critical of this and they're treating her like she's just some oh i don't know she enabled she facilitated she is as guilty if not more so than me at a lower level where there is information let's remember it's not women it's children. it's children at the end of the day oh without a doubt remember that yes but and then there were other can comment lawsuit so forget you've got david boies a good alan dershowitz and i want to know too where i say this again where is the in where are all. of those tapes you would who would one of epstein's lawyers have

it would dershowitz have this would be attorney client privilege i think the publish what would probably survive the death of him this is i don't know where the hundreds of women are who were brought forward into court asked by the f.b.i. here is a picture of everybody who has ever been in one of these photos do you recognize these people yes i know that man there he raped me good you know who that is he is the president of whoever i don't understand this you have a veritable who's who of this rogues gallery of some of the most powerful people a stand on the planet you have the chance of breaking the the super structure of child trafficking all over the world and we're dealing with the lane maxwell your charge you were her with lying on a deposition and she said i don't want her i did a great job of setting that up especially the fact that a lot of these charges do seem very minor and in concert with what we actually know

what she did and what her role was well i don't we know that jeffrey epstein and to play maxwell's cases involve some of the biggest and most powerful figures in the united states and abroad people like bill clinton donald trump prince philip yes i have been very very little media coverage of maxwell's trial compared to some of the other salacious ones like o.j. simpson's phil spector's and other celebrity trials why do you think that is. because ok i'm going to put on my tinfoil hat all right it's actually aluminum we haven't used 10 in years because the people who run the world the shadow government the ruling class the people who run this bought and sold mainstream media sock puppet group of people who basically read the back and call of others they are told what about prince andrew and by the way he has no immunity he has no immunity this is a fellow we're talking about harry and megan and oprah yes this is a guy who says i'm not going to assist you in the trying to feed justice for these

women that's just all there is forgotten now we don't know whether bill clinton or anybody was involved in criminal activity but the the soirees the sad the entertainment the parties the people who travel on the plane based on a long and pictures they would at least be able to perhaps provide information that may be informative may be probative in getting to the bottom of this but nobody's interested don't forget the past us of an attorney general bill barr is the only person on the planet who believes that jeffrey epstein committed suicide when he said it he's the only person that i know of so if this doesn't send a message as to this zeal by which agents and the government is going to be pursuing this i don't know what does always a pleasure having you out of we will look for that message of for ever comes all

right everybody is wide open here for a good education of the very as we go to break my friends remember that you could also start watching hearts on demand for the brand new portable t.v. which is available on all platforms coming up we delve into the impact colbert has had on businesses here in the united states and the ongoing mask or no mask the face taking place in austin texas stay tuned. well the pandemic no certainly no borders true nationalities. as america. we don't look like the whole world to the.

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a pleasure. mask up america that's essentially been the slogan since $1000.00 erupted in the u.s. last march schools entertainment centers restaurants or closures they've lasted for nearly a year the reopening plans of restrictions were largely left to state and local government and intricate patchwork of policy some guided by science others misguided by q. and a conspiracy theories and anti-science republicans as the bill ability of the vaccine became more readily open the easement of prescriptions and the slow return to normalcy as begun but for texas and its republican controlled state legislature simply reopening businesses just wasn't enough. texas governor greg abbott issued

an order lifting the mass mandate earlier this month this is the spite the fact that the c.d.c. and medical professionals writ large continue to say that the best defense against the virus 2nd to the vaccine is wearing a mask abbot's order left it up to business owners to decide if they'd require masks or not as you can imagine this created quite the scramble with some businesses choosing safety and others aligning on partisan lines. and customers having to wear masks in some places and nothing at all in others. health officials have condemned abbott's actions especially considering they came at a time when less than 4 percent of texas population had received the vaccine now local businesses are pushing back to the city of austin the state capital is signaling common sense a texas judge recently sided with the city of austin in a lawsuit over the city's math mandate the ruling extends the mass mandate for at

least another 2 weeks until the next hearing austin mayor steve adler supported the move on twitter governor abbott and other conservative state leaders seem to believe that removing the meth mandate was something business owners wanted turns out that isn't the case in several cities were growing concerns of virus spread lead caution one of those business owners. the general manager of numeral 28 joins us now welcome margot. how is your business been affected by the pandemic and the now relax math mandate rules do you think governor abbott with listening to business owners like you. i think he's on his own legend. he's got the whole question of the whole of the state you know businesses and all that on a personal note we would be in good shape with it and make it was it was made adoptions it's created for sales and almost far as the mass

was and it continued to require aren't. and the trouble is coming to a wrestler there been several reports about business owners like that sir but no way system for worth where the owner did that work or expressed feeling actually in danger you know she's requiring that mass be worn in her boutique spa but customers often throw tantrums or threaten or and damage the property you know as a business owner do you fear this type of pushback because this is such a politicized issue do you fear that type of pushback from customers are or how do you as a business owner kind of handle that when customers come in and say i'm not wearing the mask i don't care what you say i don't care. at this point really. by law we're not required to enforce the mass mandate we can as a business though. i would come to tea. to drink wire that

so it's we haven't had any issues with our customers coming in and when asked and when i'm asked everybody's been very accommodating so i don't see that as an issue . and everybody feels like i feel that it's a little bit of you know and then just basic of sending these orders. we just need to keep keep keep our masks on and keep the distances and all that hotel where we reach a great immunity levels so maybe another month or 2 for most people and marco it sounds like your are you know following in alignment with the thing do you think guidelines or recommendations at this point. what types of safe safety precautions are you taking within within your businesses and do you think that these are helping to protect your customers against kobe and do they do they feel safe and if having a math mandate or mass requirement for small businesses like yours do you think

that it could cause you know your economic condition to suffer are people not going to come to you or a fabulous man because they're required to wear a mask. well that's a good question but ultimately i think we need to leave it into the hands of our consumers. to make their own decisions you know and i think at this point everybody knows what the right decision is you don't need to enforce it we can suggest it the people since all of it. while we do in our establishment in the business we do require fast say face to face masks and all the employees have it alone more we have a sanitation sanitation station and you know touches menus eccentrics center if somebody insisted come into the restaurant with not wearing a mask and they want to man you now. that's my decision to to say yes and now

i don't have that yet. but i think it was time going on. it's it's going to start changing to where we're going to allow people to move without a mask i want to ask you about the business you know what's happened to businesses with everything and covered because it you know it's not it's not a have you want to be able to talk about especially as a small and medium business owner like yourself you know there's a slow build to getting small businesses back on track to pre-code levels we've seen mismanagement of the 1st round of what p.p.p. allocations businesses that needed the money the most are often left out now with the new administration there is a greater focus on the hardest hit small business of what do you think the government whether state or federal is missing in helping businesses like yours and what in your view will help bring small businesses and medium sized businesses back economically after the after the devastating losses we've seen in 2020. first of for a mars i think. achieving getting this. scene

out to the most people as possible is a iniquitous sash in a manner is probably a solution where we can't allow our economies to open up and relax as far as the government for support for the p.d.p. loans and all that. they're giving up what they had to do 'd and i think it's sad because i'm happy with that. i'm not a big disciple of just you know signing a lot of money to all the businesses just to keep them alive and then having everybody else pay for it. there's a fine line there. i think what we got last year and that p.p. line was this was good help and then a 2nd round also obviously is going to help but i think. basically we just need to let people come back to work let people come back to the businesses so let's let's let's let's let's get back to normality net stuff that's the focus that's the

principle i think that would help all of us really. margaret i got to say thank you so much for joining us today once again mark aboard the general manager of new merrill 28 from austin texas thank you so much and good luck to you and your bill you and your customers thank you so much sir. thank you very much appreciate a fascinating conversation from someone on the ground there having to deal with this sort of day to day basis absolutely i think that you know for him seeing so much government intervention and him still trying to lean on what the c.d.c. is saying even though it's not a popular thing in texas right now are many southern states very commendable it is very commendable i mean and you're going to get that idea look most people want their customers to be said most people would rather err most business owners out imagine without her err on the side of caution rather than like i come on and i'm suddenly everyone gets sick then you feel terrible because i was your establishment that happened and having a bunch of people doesn't necessarily bode well for your economic strength most

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