Hundreds of UAW members march on Washington Blvd. near Cobo Center in Detroit on Thursday, March 24, 2011. Members wore red shirts in support of the public sector and workers, especially for Wisconsin. / WILLIAM ARCHIE/Detroit Free Press
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) protestors actually forced the bank to close temporarily.
Union President Bob King led over 100 protestors into the bank where he spoke with Bank of America spokeswoman Diane Wagner.
“Anything that would help the middle class, Bank of America opposed,” King said. “When workers are struggling to pay child care and feed their families, Bank of America in 2010 made about $17.5 billion from credit card and ATM fees.”
King asked about Bank of America's 2009 taxes, of which they paid nothing.
Wagner said Bank of America paid more than $40 billion in taxes from 2000 to 2009.
Way to skirt the question. Also, on Wednesday, Bank of America said they would be refurbishing and donating 10 houses to the people of Detroit. 10 whole houses!
10 houses for someone who pays 5 billion a year in taxes? At 250,000 a house, the CEO alone(making 45 million a year) could pay for those 10 houses on less than a month's pay.
Let's get real here. You know what the country could do with the estimated 5 billion you skirted in taxes? We'd give up half of it to military spending, and then another 1,600$ a second to fund the war on drugs that has been proven ineffective.
Fuck you Bank of America.
P.S.: We need tax reform.
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