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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 2150671" data-attributes="member: 45230">Sanders Says Verizon ‘in a Given Year Has Not Paid a Nickel in Taxes’ — So CEO Releases Inconvenient Numbers in Scathing ResponseThat didn’t sit well with Verizon’s CEO, who posted a scathing response Wednesday to the Democratic presidential candidate’s “contemptible” and ”uninformed views.”“[Sanders&#039;] first accusation – that Verizon doesn’t pay its fair share of taxes – is just plain wrong,” Lowell McAdam <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/feeling-bern-reality-facts-verizon-moral-economy-lowell-mcadam?trk=prof-post" target="_blank">wrote in a LinkedIn piece</a>. ”As our financial statements clearly show, we’ve paid more than $15.6 billion in taxes over the last two years – that’s a 35% tax rate in 2015, for anyone who’s counting. …”<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/13/sanders-says-verizon-in-a-given-year-has-not-paid-a-nickel-in-taxes-so-ceo-releases-inconvenient-numbers-in-scathing-response/" target="_blank">http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/13/sanders-says-verizon-in-a-given-year-has-not-paid-a-nickel-in-taxes-so-ceo-releases-inconvenient-numbers-in-scathing-response/</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 2150671, member: 45230"] [SIZE=6][B]Sanders Says Verizon ‘in a Given Year Has Not Paid a Nickel in Taxes’ — So CEO Releases Inconvenient Numbers in Scathing Response[/B][/SIZE] That didn’t sit well with Verizon’s CEO, who posted a scathing response Wednesday to the Democratic presidential candidate’s “contemptible” and ”uninformed views.” “[Sanders'] first accusation – that Verizon doesn’t pay its fair share of taxes – is just plain wrong,” Lowell McAdam [URL='https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/feeling-bern-reality-facts-verizon-moral-economy-lowell-mcadam?trk=prof-post']wrote in a LinkedIn piece[/URL]. ”As our financial statements clearly show, we’ve paid more than $15.6 billion in taxes over the last two years – that’s a 35% tax rate in 2015, for anyone who’s counting. …” [URL]http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/04/13/sanders-says-verizon-in-a-given-year-has-not-paid-a-nickel-in-taxes-so-ceo-releases-inconvenient-numbers-in-scathing-response/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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