The Hightower Lowdown

Selling the Commons; The Corporate Tax-Dodgers

"...Hightower takes you deep into the dazzling neon of CorporateWorld, where no public facility is spared being branded by..."

March 16, 2001 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Forget Clinton – the Republicans are still going after FDR! And, corporations move even middle-class jobs overseas.

"...In a time when America's health care system is failing, when the federal budget..."

Feb. 6, 2004 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Balcones Responds

"...the paper in a year marked by attack (the American Family Assn. of Texas) and turmoil. With continued support..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Column

Picking Up the TAB

The Travis Co. DA and the courts consider Texas Association of Business money spent during the fall campaign.

"...its own estimate, at least $1.9 million in undisclosed corporate donations to pay for a massive, pro-Republican political advertising..."

March 28, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

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We are wrong, wrong, wrong. So is golf.

"...South) to be on par with the rest of America as a rule. Mostly you find tolerant, well-meaning people..."

March 10, 2000 Column

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Hide the Sponsor; and Online Voter Registration

"...are plastered with the names and glaring logos of corporate sponsors eager to link their brands with popular games,..."

Sept. 18, 2009 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Hey, Clinton: Be a Democrat; and Labor Law Lawbreaker

"...Meisburg is pulling a stall tactic that corporate violators routinely use, hoping to outlast the unionizing effort...."

Sept. 21, 2007 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Should big corporations have to pay the taxes they owe?

"...herd of lambs before I'd trust a pack of corporate hucksters to "reform" America's tax code...."

Feb. 26, 2016 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Both the feds and the corporations are abandoning the middle class

"...America's real 'job creators' are broke..."

Aug. 12, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Back to the Great Recession; and Subsidizing Plutocrats

"...state capitols are pushing a massive jobs program across America. Great, just what we need! Uh ... no. Unfor-tunately,..."

Aug. 5, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

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The Foreign Corporation Vote; and Forming a Beer Party

"...speech "right" to spend unlimited sums from their massive corporate treasuries to elect or defeat candidates in our elections,..."

April 30, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

Naked City

Headlines and happenings from Austin and beyond

"...create a policy of disablement, not deadly force, for African-Americans. It's not really a new policy, because in reality,..."

Nov. 4, 2005 News Feature

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Our readers talk back.

"...being filtered through the war machine of the IRS, corporate banking, and the military/industrial complex could be better put..."

Feb. 21, 2003 Column

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"...When Accenture's parent company, Accenture Ltd., was first incorporated last year, the organization's 2,500 partners, more than half..."

Sept. 13, 2002 Column

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Who decided that the WTO rules the U.S.?; who decided that the U.S. rules Iraq?

"...Cutting the Cords of Global Corporate Rule..."

Sept. 13, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

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The "outernet industry want advertising on the inside of your eyelids; WorldCom moneyslinger Bernie Ebbers dies by his own gun; and the un-American activities of Stanley Works.

"...phone companies in a rapid-fire acquisitions binge, notching his corporate gun with 75 takeovers in 10 years...."

June 14, 2002 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...Singing "God Bless America," waving the flag, and threats of violence are ineffective..."

Oct. 19, 2001 Column

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Our readers' letters regarding the September 11 terrorist attacks

"...York Times. You may also have read the Austin American-Statesman and The Dallas Morning News, both of which did..."

Oct. 12, 2001 Column

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Redistribution of Wealth to the Few; and Soaking Shareholders for Perks

"...America's unemployed and downsized workers are furious that corporate profits,..."

Dec. 3, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

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"...The Austin Chronicle under the headline, "Tax Cheats Get Corporate Welfare." I also strongly object to the tone and..."

July 4, 2003 Column

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"...to criticize about daily life and its shortcomings in America, such as myself, have taken at least a moment..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Column

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Massey's Mess; and Not-So-Little Corporate Piggies

"...set of internal books that are sealed in the corporate closet...."

July 15, 2011 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Franken v. Roberts; and Stomping on America's Workers

"...mold, unafraid and unabashed to go right at the corporate powers who dominate our economy, environment, media, politics, and..."

July 16, 2010 News Column by Jim Hightower

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The Myth of Georgian Democracy; and McCain, the Anti-Maverick

"...praising Georgia as a plucky, Western-style democracy that deserves America's full support. Indeed, Bush and McCain immediately pledged a..."

Oct. 17, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Spending Your Stimulus Check; and Corporate Greed Strangles Health Care

"...the stuff sold in those stores isn't made in America. So those sounds of economic stimulation we're hearing –..."

May 16, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Democrats Suckered on Water-Boarding; and Sanctioning Corporate Autocracy

"...was nominated last year by George W. to be America's top legal officer, all hell broke loose at his..."

Feb. 22, 2008 News Column by Jim Hightower

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Bad Bosses; and a Bill to Ban Sweatshop Labor

"...chance to speak out about real life in the corporate hive, the grassroots organization called Working America, which is..."

Aug. 25, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

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President Pinocchio speaks to the nation; and Lobbyists reject restrictions

"...His headline-grabber was that America is "addicted to oil" and that he'll cut U.S...."

Feb. 17, 2006 News Column by Jim Hightower

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"...for "getting behind" a federal law to stop the corporate scam of playing one town against another to get..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Column

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"...good people -- who happen to be sick of American BS as usual, and want to see some major..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Column

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