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Posts tagged as “corporation”

South Dakota Hog Farmer “Almost Going to Have to” Hire Illegal Immigrants

Agricultural industry groups complain that President Barack Obama's immigration action won't help them find the workers they need to bring home the bacon. In a brilliant display of rationalization, Hurley hog farmer Steve Schmiechel says the President's inaction and the…

Weiland Bashes Tax-Dodging by Inversion and Corporate Personhood

Last month, Minneapolis-based Medtronic acquired a big Irish corporation so it could create a new headquarters on paper in Dublin and pay Ireland's lower corporate tax rate. The financerazzi call the Medtronic move inversion. Democratic candidate for Senate Rick Weiland…

Corporations Gobbling up Farm Land, Favored by State Law and Handouts

You know who's driving up farm land prices? Corporations and foreign investors: In November 2012, UBS AgriVest, a unit of the Swiss banking giant UBS, paid $67.5 million, or nearly $7,000 per acre, for about 9,800 acres in southwest Wisconsin.…