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China tests non-nuclear hydrogen bomb
Chinese researchers have successfully detonated a hydrogen-based explosive device in a controlled field test, triggering devastating chemical chain reactions without using any nuclear materials, according to a study published last month in the Chinese-language Journal of Projectiles, Rockets, Missiles and Guidance.
The 2kg (4.4lbs) bomb generated a fireball exceeding 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 degrees Fahrenheit) for more than two seconds – 15 times longer than equivalent TNT blasts – without using any nuclear materials, it said.
Developed by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation’s (CSSC) 705 Research Institute, the device uses a magnesium-based solid-state hydrogen storage material. Triggered by conventional explosives, the material underwent rapid thermal decomposition, releasing hydrogen gas that ignited into a prolonged, high-temperature fireball.
“This combination allows precise control over blast intensity, easily achieving uniform destruction of targets across vast areas.”
The research noted that the hydrogen bomb can cause extended thermal damage due to its white-hot fireball, capable of melting aluminum alloys. By comparison, TNT explosions typically produce a flash that lasts only about 0.12 seconds.
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Boston mayor's campaign allegedly funded by fundriser linked to China
Boston Democratic Mayor Michelle Wu’s 2021 campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from a fundraiser who is listed by a Chinese intelligence agency as an official, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation discovered.
Gary Yu, the founder of Boston International Media Consulting, helped raise over $300,000 for Wu with the help of a Chinese civic association he leads. However, Yu — whose Chinese name is Yu Guoliang — is listed as an official by an agency of a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) influence and intelligence service called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), and also operates as a recruiter for the Chinese government, according to reports from the CCP, Chinese state media and civic associations led by Yu.
“The Communist Party’s UFWD never rests,” author and China expert Gordon Chang told the DCNF. “There is no ethnic Chinese official in America who is not targeted. It’s time for law enforcement to investigate the CCP’s ties to Gary Yu and Yu’s ties to Mayor Michelle Wu.”
Wu has risen to national prominence as a central figure in the Democratic resistance to Trump’s border and deportation policies. Wu recently defended her city’s refusal to cooperate with immigration officials during her March 19, 2025 “State of the City” address, during which she criticized “presidents who think they are kings,” prompting the White House to fire back the next day with a press release labeling Wu a “radical mayor” who “puts violent criminal illegal aliens first.”
#USA #China #Boston #FindTruth
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Even with subsidies, solar panels and other green home upgrades take years to pay off
Solar panels, one of the most popular retrofits, typically require more than eight years to offset their upfront cost despite existing federal and state incentives that cut their price by more than half.
The academic findings come as the Trump administration moves to roll back the Biden administration's climate agenda, including the Inflation Reduction Act. President signed an executive order on Inauguration Day freezing the $8.8 billion in home energy rebates authorized by the act.
Heat pumps—touted as greener alternatives to gas furnaces—are even slower to break even. A basic heat pump, priced at $12,000 after rebates, may save only $252 a year and will not yield financial returns for 48 years. A higher-efficiency heat pump can save around $755 annually but still needs 8 years just to recoup initial costs.
Insulation and air sealing upgrades, which cost around $9,187 after rebates, would take homeowners nearly 29 years to cover installation fees.
#USA #Energy #FindTruth
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Digital marketing’s stealthy assault on childhood nutrition fuels global obesity crisis
Social media platforms and algorithms aggressively target children with ads for ultra-processed foods, often disguised as organic content (e.g., influencer posts, games and quizzes). Over 70% of children encounter such ads within minutes of logging in.
Outdated regulations and voluntary corporate measures fail to curb harmful marketing. WHO warns that self-regulation has not worked, urging mandatory restrictions on unhealthy food ads targeting youth.
Children worldwide—from the U.S. to Australia—face relentless exposure via smartphones and apps. Teens see up to 189 junk food ads weekly, with tactics varying by gender (e.g., athleticism-themed ads for boys, diet quizzes for girls).
Childhood obesity linked to digital marketing increases risks for chronic diseases like diabetes and heart disease. Experts compare unchecked food marketing to tobacco—urging governments to prioritize public health over corporate profits.
#WHO #Children #Health #FindTruth
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Is "de-dollarization" on the table? BRICS summit approaches as trade war simmers
The BRICS intend to court the Mexican government at the July 2025 summit in Rio de Jeneiro and there is also talk of European nations increasing trade with China as a way to frustrate Trump’s tariff efforts. But again, China’s economy is currently flirting with deflationary disaster and there’s not a single nation or group of nations that will be able to fill the void in consumer markets left behind by the US.
Even though a Chinese-based solution is unlikely, the behavior of the BRICS indicates that there is some kind of plan afoot. China and India have been stockpiling massive gold reserves and this may be in preparation for a break from the dollar, with gold skyrocketing as the dollar falls. The ongoing shift into crypto and CBDCs might be an attempt to create a cushion for de-dollerization.
Does this mean that the US and Trump are falling into a trap? Do tariffs make it easier to justify an international shift way from the dollar? Is Trump making things easier for the globalists?
#BRICS #Economy #FindTruth
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Biden began to offer his services as a speaker at events
The former President of the United States asks for one speech $300 thousand, writes the New York Post.
In addition, the publication noted that in case of a speech in another city, Biden will also need a private jet and the cost of five employees.
There are still few people willing to listen to the politician. 😄
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Can the navy do something more creative with the USS enterprise than sink her?
Dismantling the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) is turning out to be so expensive that the U.S. Navy is contemplating sinking it.
While sinking the USS Enterprise might make sense, over the last 30 years sinking ships instead of mothballing them has become all too common. And perhaps not coincidentally, over the same 30 years it has become de rigueur to hear U.S. Navy brass and Pentagon spokespeople discussing the difficulties in maintaining fleet size.
The premature destruction of the Navy’s’ most capable anti-submarine ship, the highly versatile and powerful Spruance destroyers, made our Navy weaker. The rationale for doing so was to “save money.”
But in reality, what the Navy did in the early 2000s was to opt for the riskiest of three future shipbuilding options that “coincidentally” gave lucrative contracts to defense contractors to design and produce grossly underperforming ships like the Littoral Combat Ship and the 14,000-ton Zumwalt destroyer, which provide far less combat power than the over two dozen Spruances that were destroyed.
Over the last three decades, the habit of sinking ships or scrapping ships instead of putting them into mothballs has become standard practice. The Navy used to maintain a sizable reserve/mothball fleet, but today the Navy’s reserve fleet is almost non-existent and has been so for decades.
#USA #Navy #FindTruth
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Your tax refund is a total scam
Roughly two-thirds of American taxpayers receive a federal refund each year, averaging about $3,000 apiece.
But your refund is simply the US Treasury’s return of money you overpaid throughout the year — the result of a series of interest-free loans you unwittingly made to the federal government.
It’s like having your wallet stolen, losing all your cash and credit cards, yet celebrating when you find your driver’s license within the empty wallet tossed in the bushes.
Even though 80% of taxpayers sent on average a couple thousand dollars less to Washington, only 17% thought they’d gotten a tax cut — proof that many Americans gauge their tax burden not by how much they pay throughout the year, but by the size of their refund.
The automatic withholding system keeps them in the dark.
Our largely automated tax system is part of the reason few Americans are even aware of this looming tax hike.
#USA #Economy #Tax #FindTruth
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Public transportation environment in Lisbon, Portugal
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Use tariff negotiations to isolate China from the rest of the world
The strategy of forcing the world into "us vs them" camps first emerged last week when Donald Trump reduced reciprocal tariffs for all countries except China, something we highlighted at the time. A few days later, this now appears to be the official strategy in the global trade war.
The Trump admin reportedly plans to use ongoing tariff negotiations to pressure U.S. trading partners to limit their dealings with China.
The idea is to extract commitments from U.S. trading partners to isolate China’s economy in exchange for reductions in trade and tariff barriers imposed by the White House. US officials plan to use negotiations with more than 70 nations to ask them to disallow China to ship goods through their countries, prevent Chinese firms from locating in their territories to avoid U.S. tariffs, and not absorb China’s cheap industrial goods into their economies.
Those measures are meant to put a final stake in China’s already ‘sinking’ economy (which somewhat ironically got a boost in the first quarter) and force Beijing to the negotiating table with less leverage ahead of potential talks between Trump and President Xi Jinping.
US officials have already presented the idea in early talks with some countries, who added that Trump himself hinted at the strategy on Tuesday, telling the Spanish-language program “Fox Noticias” he would consider making countries choose between the US and China in response to a question about Panama deciding not to renew its role in the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s global infrastructure program for developing nations.
#USA #China #TradeWar #FindTruth
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CDC weighing end to universal COVID vaccine recommendations
A majority of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's work group on COVID-19 vaccines now supports ending the agency's pandemic-era recommendation for virtually all Americans to get vaccinated against the virus each year.
Instead of the agency's longstanding "universal" recommendation, most of the CDC's advisers and health officials favor shifting to guidance based on people's individual risk of more severe disease.
While a final decision has not yet been made, this could mean that only adults ages 65 years and older would still be recommended to get at least two doses every year, under a policy option laid out to the agency's advisers, as well as people who have an underlying health condition putting them at higher risk.
Among those backing the switch, most also want "permissive language to allow anyone wanting protection from COVID-19 vaccination to receive one," the CDC's Dr. Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos said at a Tuesday meeting of the panel.
#USA #COVID #CDC #FindTruth
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EPA chief sounds alarm on rogue climate group launching sulfur dioxide balloons to geo-engineer earth
Climate activists in Northern California are launching balloons filled with sulfur dioxide into the upper atmosphere in an effort to manipulate the Earth's temperature. In exchange, the climate startup behind the operation sells "cooling credits" priced at $30 for a subscription or $5 to offset 1 ton of carbon dioxide. The startup's unregulated operations are causing a major stir and have drawn the attention of EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.
"Make Sunsets is a startup that is geoengineering by injecting sulfur dioxide into the sky and then selling "cooling credits." This company is polluting the air we breathe. I've instructed my team that we need to quickly get to the bottom of this and take immediate action," Zeldin wrote on X.
Luke Iseman, the former director of hardware at Y Combinator, launched Make Sunsets a few years ago with the backing of Boost VC, Draper Associates, Pioneer Fund, and angel investors.
Make Sunsets takes its name from the striking sunsets caused by high-altitude sulfur dioxide particles, like those observed after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo, which temporarily lowered global temperatures by roughly 2°C for about a year.
Allowing rogue activists to play God with the climate is a disaster waiting to happen. These aerosols increase Earth's albedo (reflectivity), causing temporary global cooling and potentially disrupting jet stream behavior.
#USA #Climate #FindTruth
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Chinese refiners have cut oil imports from the U.S. by 90% and are now buying record volumes of Canadian crude, Bloomberg reports. In March, shipments to China reached 7.3 million barrels.
#USA #China #Economy #FindTruth
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Irish Government hesitates on Dublin mayor vote over Conor McGregor fears
The government is said to be putting plans on hold for a directly elected mayor for Dublin, due to fears it could pave the way for figures like Conor McGregor to gain political power.
Although McGregor's presidential bid this year seems far-fetched, the coalition is reluctant to hold a vote on whether Dublin should have a directly elected mayor - viewed as a more achievable path to political office for the MMA fighter.
Unlike the presidency, a directly elected mayor would have considerable powers, manage a large budget, and have the capacity to increase local taxes.
And the election of independent candidate John Moran as Limerick's first directly elected mayor has reportedly amplified these concerns.
#Ireland #McGregor #FindTruth
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Bill Gates on the near-term prospects for artificial intelligence:
- People are scared, we're entering a whole new territory.
- So will humans themselves still be needed?
- For most tasks, no. Well, we'll solve it.
Will he solve it..?🤔
#USA #AI #Gates #FindTruth
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FDA removing pharmaceutical representatives from advisory panels
The Food and Drug Administration will remove industry representatives from advisory committees and replace them with patients and caregivers, Commissioner Marty Makary announced last Thursday.
The FDA said in a press release that the move is intended “to boost public trust in its decisions and improve how its advisory committees operate.”
Exceptions may be made in rare circumstances when a particular expertise is needed or when pharma reps are required by statute to serve on committees, the agency said.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he planned to replace members of HHS advisory committees who have conflicts of interest as part of his broader effort to intervene in Big Pharma’s undue influence over regulatory agencies.
However, many members of advisory committees at the FDA and other agencies under HHS still have major conflicts of interest, even if they are not directly employed by industry. For example, Dr. Paul Offit, who invented a rotavirus vaccine later developed by the pharmaceutical giant Merck, sits on the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee. His hospital, which owns the patent, licenses it to Merck.
#USA #FDA #RFKJr #FindTruth
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Japan considers easing car safety standards as part of potential new trade deal
Japan is considering relaxing automobile safety rules for imports as part of its tariff negotiations with the United States.
Japan has been hit with 24% levies on its exports to the U.S. although these rates have, like most of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs, been paused for 90 days. A 10% universal rate remains in place, as does a 25% duty on cars, a mainstay of Japan's export-reliant economy.
As Japan and the U.S. use different safety standards, Tokyo sees room for easing rules on crash tests as a bargaining chip in trade talks.
With Trump's trade offensive roiling markets and stoking recession fears, Japan is seeking to walk back his "reciprocal" tariffs and other duties imposed on Japan, along with dozens of countries.
#Japan #USA #Economy #FindTruth
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Hating Trump is more important than helping sick and poor people?
The university’s president, Alan Garber, on Monday published an open letter announcing that the institution would not be accepting the money under the Trump administration’s terms, laid out in the government’s own letter last week. “The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” wrote Garber.
Supporting Garber, former President Obama wrote on X: “Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions — rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom.”
But as we’ve seen before, it’s often more important to Democrats and institutions like Harvard to pick a losing fight, so long as it puts them at odds with the president. They claim to oppose government waste and then devote every fiber of their being to ensuring not one dollar is cut from the federal bureaucracy.
They pretend to support sensible immigration enforcement and then spend what has now been a month demanding foreign nationals with deportation orders be brought back to the U.S. Now Harvard says it will forego money supposedly crucial to its academic research and global advancement, and Democrats applaud it as an act of brave defiance.
#USA #Trump #Democrats #FindTruth
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The other side of union busting - baristas organize and end up busting a business and losing their jobs
Last fall, the employees at the four locations voted to unionize. What you will see on display is a common theme found in the latest generation of workers, where the staff displays an overinflated sense of value and power. Forgetting they are low-skilled workers in the service industry, you see on display the fractured mindset of those who elevate their position from coffee hustlers to being regarded as “baristas.”
You can dress up the title with any preferred Euro-euphemism all you like, it doesn’t change your role as a caffeine facilitator. This fast food burger flippers demand for high minimum wage salaries altered staffing sizes inside franchises and inspired the kiosk automation ordering methods becoming more common today. The sense that owners have no choice but to cave to these extortion methods frequently exposes the ignorance behind these emotional strong-arm attempts.
The Café Cerés saga displays many of the contemporary pitfalls of these organizing efforts. Frequently we hear of head-shaking demands of being included in the operational aspects of the business from those in entry-level positions. It is expected that the owners who invested at high risk and put in sweat equity for years have to heed the demands of 20-year-old Cody the barista between his time spent writing a screenplay.
There is some contradictory obliviousness in the tear-shedding following the closures.
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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Vaxxed healthcare workers 27% more likely to contract flu: study
People who received a flu vaccine formulated for the 2024-2025 flu season had a 27% higher risk of getting the flu than those who didn’t get the vaccine, suggesting “the vaccine has not been effective in preventing influenza this season,” according to a new preprint study.
The study of 53,402 employees of the Cleveland Clinic, an Ohio-based nonprofit academic medical center, concluded that the flu vaccine had a negative effectiveness rate of 26.9%.
TrialSite News called the findings “deeply concerning” because they suggest “harm rather than protection” and contradict public health narratives about the flu vaccine.
#COVID #Vaccines #FindTruth
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Since the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area was established in 2010, bilateral trade volume has skyrocketed, tripling from 2010 to 2024 and nearly reaching a trillion dollars a year
#China #Economy #FindTruth
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Political money-grab
Sorens published a state-by-state ranking of gambling freedom across America. Nevada lets gambling flourish, while Utah, Hawaii and Georgia ban most of it. Now some politicians want to ban more. Some states ban at-home poker games, occasionally even arresting players.
U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Richard Blumenthal want sports betting banned again. And in a free country, people should be allowed to take risks. The same bullies who want to ban gambling don't propose banning the worst form of it — their own state lotteries.
Slot machines are a dumb bet, yet on average, they still give you back about 90% of what's bet. Sports bettors and poker players keep more. But state lotteries take almost half of everything bet!
Worse, they take it from poor people. Lottery ticket buyers are disproportionately poor. Politicians' hunger for money is also why they forbid private gambling businesses to compete with them.
Politicians ban betting and pompously claim that they know best how we should spend our money. They destroy slot machines and arrest numbers-runners and bookies. Then they run their own betting scams, which offer much worse odds.
#USA #NCAA #FindTruth
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New Pentagon chairman: U.S. lacks ability to deter adversaries
The new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Caine has warned that the U.S. military currently is unable to deter China and other adversaries and called for urgent defense reforms.
The disclosure comes as the U.S. military is facing potential conflict with China in the Taiwan Strait where the commander of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command has said China has been rehearsing for large-scale military operations against a key U.S. partner, Taiwan.
Adm. Sam Paparo, the commander, told a Senate hearing last week that China is engaged in “unprecedented aggression” against Taiwan.
Adm. Paparo said U.S. forces can deter China and prevail in a conflict but warned that “the margin is eroding.”
#USA #Pentagon #FindTruth
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Even King Charles won’t speak to Prince Harry anymore
King Charles has completely cut off his son Prince Harry.
A new report in People magazine, a publication to which Harry has this week given an exclusive interview and towards which his office is known to be friendly, says that the king no longer returns Harry’s calls or letters and that Harry’s only source of information about his father’s ongoing cancer battle is through what he reads in the media.
The revelation of the complete collapse of father/son contact came after Harry lashed out at his family saying they stripped him of his security to try and “control” him and to “trap” him and Meghan in the U.K.
Adding remarkable further detail, the publication stated that there have been “no private father-son conversations since.”
Less surprisingly, Prince William, who was trashed in Harry’s memoir, Spare, as was his wife, Kate Middleton, has also refused Harry’s attempts to be in contact. William’s friends have made it clear to the Daily Beast that he despises his brother for betraying his trust.
#UK #RoyalFamily #FindTruth
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Happy Easter!
A video of a rabbit patrolling the neighborhood with a machine gun riding a robot dog has gone viral in China's social networks
#USA #China #Easter #FindTruth
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America’s $19 trillion consumer economy in one chart
To no one’s surprise, the world’s largest economy is also the world’s largest consumer economy.
But how much do Americans collectively spend on the goods and services they need? And what items draw the largest share?
America’s consumer class spent nearly $19 trillion on goods and services in 2023. This was about 68% of the U.S. GDP that year. It was also larger than China’s overall GDP that year as well ($17.8T).
Housing and utilities ($3.3T) and health care ($3.1T) were the top household expenditure categories overall.
Meanwhile, Americans spent the most money on groceries ($1.4T) in the goods category.
Tellingly, services account for nearly 70% of America’s personal consumption expenditure.
This is matched by the supply side as well: nearly 80% of America’s jobs are in the service sector.
#USA #Economy #FindTruth
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A new popular trend has emerged in Britain and Germany - migrants attacking people with knives.
In Germany there are 80 such attacks a day.
Seven knife attacks in just three days took place in the UK. Knife crime is out of control there - up 78% in a decade.
#Germany #UK #Migrants #FindTruth
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US tariffs reignite EU free trade agreement talks with India
The European Union has ramped up its push to conclude a free trade agreement (FTA) with India, with pharmaceuticals now in the spotlight.
Following the recent tariffs announcements by the US, which caught the EU and others somewhat off guard, Brussels and New Delhi have signalled they were set to wrap up negotiations by the end of 2025 after years of protracted talks.
Previously bogged down for more than a decade by disputes over digital trade, investment safeguards, the agricultural and food (agrifood) industries and environmental standards, these negotiations had been marked by stagnation.
Now, with Washington’s tariff moves throwing Europe’s supply chains into disarray, both Brussels and India expressed a new willingness to progress swiftly.
#USA #FTF #Economy #FindTruth
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Japan: Covid vaccines slash survival rate of cancer patients
A group of Japan’s leading oncology scientists has raised the alarm after uncovering evidence that Covid mRNA “vaccines” dramatically reduce the survival rate of cancer patients.
The findings were revealed by a research team led by Dr. Makoto Abue of the Miyagi Cancer Center in Natori, Japan.
Makoto’s team was made up of some of Japan’s most highly respected experts from the Miyagi Cancer Center Research Institute.
The team conducted a major study to investigate surges in rapidly spreading and highly aggressive cancers among people who received Covid mRNA vaccines. Some of America’s top oncologists have dubbed this phenomenon “turbo cancer.”
The study found that the prognosis in cancer patients worsened after each dose of the “vaccine.” Notably, they found dramatically worsened prognoses in patients with pancreatic cancer (PC).
The results of the study were published in the journal PrePrints.
#Japan #COVID #Vaccines #FindTruth
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'Silicon Six' tech firms accused of avoiding $278bn in US taxes over decade
Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft – collectively dubbed the "Silicon Six" – are accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporate income tax over the past decade, according to new analysis from the Fair Tax Foundation (FTF).
The six tech giants reportedly paid an average corporate income tax rate of 18.8% over the past 10 years, significantly below the 29.7% statutory rate for US businesses earning equivalent profits.
According to the FTF, these companies earned $11tn in revenue and $2.5tn in profit during the period under review. The FTF report claims the companies have embedded tax avoidance into their corporate structures.
When excluding one-off repatriation tax payments related to historic tax avoidance, the average tax contribution drops further to 16.1%.
FTF also said the companies overstated their tax contributions by about $82bn by including contingency taxes that were unlikely to be paid.
#USA #FTF #Economy #FindTruth
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