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Tax Dodging Corporations Are Destroying Public Education
Our education system is starved for cash, and this is a direct result of the Republican policy of letting corporations get away without paying taxes.
A recent article on Alternet explains the problem this way: Corporations operating in states are required to pay state taxes, which are then used to fund public education, among a host of other state programs.
Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.
