AMERICANS FOR TAX FAIRNESS SELECTED NEWS STORIES AND COMMENTARY May 1, 2014 – April 30, 2015 Media clips included in this report were generated from activities sponsored by ATF, primarily at the national level, as funding for state groups ended in March 2014. A press clip is included that either in whole or in large part was generated by work by ATF and its communications consultants. Included are news stories, op-eds, editorials, opinion columns and blog posts. NATIONAL MEDIA 27 Blog: Opponents: Estate tax repeal would only benefit the wealthy -- FarmWorld.com 27 Column: The Death Tax Deception -- Bloomberg View 27 Column: Fix The Tax Code Friday: Should We Repeal The Federal Estate Tax? -- Forbes 27 How the government taxes rich dead people, explained -- Vox 28 Blog: Congress Might Repeal the Estate Tax, But Here's What They Could Do Instead -- Attn.com 28 In defense of Walmart: Why corporations shouldn't be responsible for preventing poverty -- The Week 29 Column: The Republican Recipe for Widening Inequality -- The New York Times 29 Op-Ed: House GOP Votes to Take Food From the Mouths of Hungry Children to Give Huge Tax Break to Children of Multi-Millionaires -- Really? -- Huffington Post 30 Blog: Walmart Heir Does Not Deserve Assets It Would Take a Worker a Million Years to Earn -- Truth-Out 30 Op-Ed: Ben & Jerry: We don't need this stupid tax cut -- USA TODAY 31 Op-Ed: Undermining the American dream -- The Hill 32 Editorial: Repealing estate tax would reward 0.2%: Our view -- USA TODAY 32 House Votes 240-179 To Repeal Estate Tax -- Forbes 32 6 Of The Fastest-Growing Jobs In America Pay Low Wages -- The Huffington Post 33 Blog: Massive Tax Cut For The Wealthiest 0.2% -- Down With Tyranny 33 Blog: Republican House votes to repeal the estate tax for the richest 0.2 percent -- The Daily Kos 33 Blog: The Truth About Walmart and Their People Failures -- The Good Men Project 34 Page 1 of 186 Op-Ed: Repeal of Estate Tax Rewards Billionaires, Punishes Working Americans -- Huffington Post 34 VIDEO: The Fight Over the Estate Tax Explained in Three Charts -- Bloomberg News 35 Blog: 5 Lies About the Estate Tax and the Truth Behind the Lies -- AFL-CIO 35 Op-Ed: Keep Downton Abbey on TV -- Newsday 35 Column: GOP’s estate tax swindle: Carving out a bonus for millionaire heirs while hiding behind farmers -- Salon 36 Blog: On Tax Day, House GOP Set To Vote To Repeal Estate Tax -- Crooks and Liars 36 Blog: Republicans Want to Mark Tax Day With a Gift to the Top 0.2 Percent -- The Nation 37 Column: Milbank: Republicans push for a permanent aristocracy -- The Washington Post 37 Column: Fact Checker: Is the estate tax killing small farms and businesses? -- The Washington Post 38 This CEO Is Taking Minimum Wage Hikes Into His Own Hands — At $70K Per Year -- News.Mic 39 Taxpayers Spend Billions On Government Help For Low-Wage Workers -- International Business Times 40 Blog: Massive Tax Break Vote On April 15 For Millionaires And Billionaires -- Crooks and Liars 40 Quick Links: [ATF’s] Estate Tax Editorial Board Memo -- POLITICO Morning Tax 40 Op-Ed: Walmart's Small Wage Increase Not Enough for Employees, Taxpayers -- The Huffington Post 41 Despite pay hike, Walmart workers still need help -- CBS News 41 When Wal-Mart Comes To Town, What Does It Mean For Workers? -- National Public Radio 42 Workers respond to McDonald's pay increase: we fight on -- The Guardian 42 Report: Wal-Mart's Wage Hike Insufficient to Keep Workers Off the Dole -- Newsmax 42 Blog: Two New Reports Detail How Walmart Keeps Profits High, Wages Down -- AFL-CIO 43 Column: Republicans have a new plan to cut taxes for the top 0.2 percent -- The Washington Post Wonkblog 43 Following the crowd, McDonald’s pledges to raise wages -- The Washington Post 44 Seattle's Wage Hike Reminds Us A $9 Minimum Wage Isn't Enough -- The Huffington Post 44 Walmart Gave Workers a Raise—But It's Not Enough To Keep Them Off the Dole -- Mother Jones 45 Walmart's Higher Wages Still Not High Enough -- Gawker 45 Blog: Even With Wage Increase, Walmart Workers Will Still Need Public Assistance -- Think Progress 46 Page 2 of 186 Blog: Walmart raised its pay. But it's still so low workers qualify for government aid -- The Daily Kos 46 Blog: Walmart's Wage Hike Still Puts Taxpayers on the Hook -- RH Reality Check 46 The Estate Tax Isn’t Destroying Family Farms -- Al Jazeera America News 47 Estate tax repeal: Republicans want to cut taxes for rich dead people, again -- Slate 47 Op-Ed: Stark Choices: People’s Budget vs. Republican Budget -- The Hill 47 Column: How Wal-Mart stole Christmas — and hijacked American politics -- Salon 49 Op-Ed: No More Tax Break Christmas Trees -- Americans for Tax Fairness, syndicated by American Forum in at least 46 papers 49 Column: Can We Blame Burger King for Ditching the U.S.? -- The Wall Street Cheat Sheet 49 Tim Hortons takeover will let Burger King skirt taxes, U.S. activist group says -- Investor Central -- Penny alerts 50 Report Finds That Burger King "Inversion" Will Allow Company to Dodge $400 Million to $1.2 Billion in US Taxes Over Four Years -- TruthOut 50 Tax activist group alleges Burger King to dodge over $400 mn in taxes with Tim Horton acquisition -- The Zimbabwe Star (Africa) 51 Blog: Burger King's Tax Inversion: A 'Whopper' Of A Deal -- Crooks and Liars 51 Burger King, Tim Hortons deal skirts taxes, U.S. group says -- CBC News 52 Burger King could save millions on taxes -- The Hill/ MSN.com 52 How much will controversial inversion deal save Burger King in taxes? -- CNN Money 53 Column: Burger King removes itself from higher U.S. tax rate if it moves to Canada -- The Washington Post Wonkblog, The Hamilton Spectator (Ontario) 53 Burger King's Move To Canada Could Save It $275 Million In Taxes -- Reuters/ The Huffington Post 54 Burger King-Tim Hortons Deal May Cost U.S. Taxpayers Between $400 Million To $1 Billion -- Politico's Morning Tax 54 Burger King to save millions in U.S. taxes in 'inversion': study -- Reuters/ BNN News (Canada)/ RocketNews (Japan)/ 4-Traders/ The Economic Times of India/ Yahoo News 54 Burger King will avoid $117m in tax from Tim Hortons merger, activists say -- The Guardian 55 Burger King Could Dodge $1.2 Billion In US Taxes Through 2018 With Tim Horton's Merger -- The International Business Times 55 Column: Burger King’s Canadian Tax Inversion Could Save It $1.2 Billion -- Grub Street 55 Page 3 of 186 Op Ed: Black Friday Blues -- Americans for Tax Fairness, syndicated by American Forum in at least 46 papers 56 Column: Guess who’s opposed to corporate tax reform: Corporations -- Yahoo Finance 57 Blog: The Story Behind the Story of Those Huge Corporate Tax Cuts -- Bill Moyers 57 Blog: Walmart Dodges $1 Billion Of Taxes A Year -- Generation Progress 57 Dems run majority of tax ads -- The Hill 58 Tax Extender Deal Is A Handout for Big Business -- The New Republic 59 $1 Billion: That’s How Much Walmart Avoids Paying in Taxes Each Year Through Loopholes -- The Nation 59 Blog: 5 Ways Walmart Avoids Paying Taxes and Is Scheming to Pay Even Less -- AFL-CIO 60 Column: Walmart Workers Respond to Offensive Donation Bins With a Powerful Message of Their Own -- News Mic 60 The MNB Walmart Watch -- Morning News Beat 60 Column: My Town Fought Wal-Mart -- and Wal-Mart Won -- Counter Punch 61 New Studies Return the Spotlight to Walmart Over Pay, Taxes -- 24/7 Wall St 61 TV: Walmart Exploiting Tax Loopholes: Watchdog -- ABC News 61 Walmart Dodges Taxes While its Employees Starve -- Gawker 62 Walmart tarred by US watchdog -- The New York Post 62 Blog: Walmart Asks Employees To Donate Food To Help Feed Their Coworkers -- Think Progress 63 It’s almost Thanksgiving, so Walmart is asking employees to donate food to co-workers -- Raw Story 63 TV: How Walmart is scheming to dodge even more BILLIONS in taxes -- The Thom Hartmann Program 63 Video: Walmart Asks Employees to Donate Food to Needy Coworkers -- Opposing Views 63 Column: Wal-Mart's Bottomless Greed: Dodging Billions in Taxes, Scheming to Avoid Billions More -- Alternet 64 Blog: Tax-Dodging Deal Fails Thanks To Obama's Inversion Rules -- And Us -- Campaign for America’s Future 64 First In Score -- Politico's Morning Score 65 Democrats' Tax Ad Offensive -- Politico's Morning Tax 65 Obama's Inversion Crackdown Not Enough To Keep Chiquita In America -- Huffington Post 66 Franken crusades against tax deal -- The Hill 66 Page 4 of 186 TV: Obama Pushes Back on Corporate Deserters -- MSNBC 66 Big Pharma Is The Big Loser In New Tax-Dodging Rules -- The Huffington Post 67 U.S. Chamber of Commerce ads attack White House anti-inversion stance -- MarketWatch 67 One problem, Wyden standing alone for now -- Politico's Morning Tax 67 Op-Ed: Inverting corporations should pay what they owe when they go -- The Hill 68 Standard & Poor's Warns of Credit Downgrades for Inverters -- Tax Analysts 68 ObamaCare contract muddles Dem message on tax dodgers -- The Hill 69 Blog: Looks Like Burger King's Subjects Are Royally Pissed Off -- Yubanet 69 Blog: Now It's Burger King Renouncing US Citizenship - Let's Eat Somewhere Else -- The Huffington Post 70 Burger King-Tim Hortons Merger Plan Raises Tax-Inversion Issue -- The Wall Street Journal 70 Burger King Tax-Dodging Jokes Write Themselves -- Fortune 70 Column: Should Burger King Be Allowed to Move to Canada to Dodge Taxes? -- US News and World Report 71 Burger King Dares Obama To Stop It From Fleeing To Canada -- Huffington Post 71 Blog: Burger King might flip its tax burden to Canada with proposed merger -- Daily Kos 71 As Obama returns, advocates look for executive action