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Subscribe to RSSOccupy protesters in Hartford, Conn., have until 6 p.m. Tuesday to leave their encampment or risk being arrested after the deadline passes.
"I don't anticipate any trouble, but I will take appropriate corrective action," Hartford Police Chief Daryl K. Roberts told the Hartford Courant.
Roberts said that Hartford Mayor Pedro Segarra notified the campers of his decision early Tuesday morning through a written statement handed out by city employees, the Courant reported.
The decision to vacate the site was reportedly prompted by continuing reports of illegal activity, including drug use and a sexual assault last week.
Amanda Robinson told the Courant that she has been camping at the site since Oct. 24. When asked what response the protesters might make to the deadline notice, Robinson said: "I'm sure we're going to make it interesting."
Elsewhere across the country Tuesday:
- Police clear out New Orleans camp
- Housing and 'Occupy' activists take aim at foreclosed homes, empty lots
For more on today's 'Occupy' action, Click here
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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If they leave then they are not civil disobedient but just loitering.
Geez, is that pathetic bunch still protesting?????.......YAWN!
baaaa, baaa, baaaaaaaa, says the sheeple.
Time to zip up your pants, pack up the bong, finish the last whipit, shake the bugs out of the blanket and move on. Maybe there is a Save the Whales protest to go to.
Here is an example of what the Occupy crowd is against.
General Electric (GE) in 2010 made $14.2 billion in profit. They paid $0 in federal income taxes. They received $3.5 billion in tax credits from the IRS.
A family making a median income of $50,000, paying an effective tax rate of %20, paid $10,000 in federal income taxes.
So, it took 350,000 of those families just to pay for GE's corporate welfare credits.
That is 350,000 families that had their tax money disappear into GE's pockets and getting nothing in return from their government.
This was also done by Verizon, DuPont, Boeing and a whole host of other super-rich mega-corporations.
This should not be allowed to happen. It is wrong. I know that our elected corporate shills in Congress set this up for them. They were paid (bribed) enough to get it done.
This must stop. But the government won't stop it. The corporations are paying them to keep the gravy train rolling.
This is your government giving your money to the mega-rich that don't need it. And you get nothing from your government. No roads, infrastructure, regulations against arsenic in your water, etc.
Meanwhile, the "authorities" are going to extreme measures to quash the Occupy movement. At the behest, of course, of their government handlers, and their corporate masters.
It is in the interests of the 99% (whether you think you are the 99% or not), to support the cause of Occupy. Government accountability and ethics. Corporate responsibility. The end of corporate plutocracy.
Est officium populi.
Stan How many 1120's have you prepared, studied, or even seen? Just as I thought.
What is the tax rate on a corporate loss. I'll give you a hint, it is 0.
According to tax regulation, they made nothing. Why should they pay taxes if the tax code says they owe nothing. If you owned a business would you pay taxes voluntarily? Better yet, if you ran a business you didn't own, but had to answer to the Board of Directors, would you pay taxes voluntarily?
If you haven't worked in corporate finance, taxation or upper management, you really are not familiar with the issues other than the information you choose to read on the Internet.
Corporations have multiple responsibilities to their clients, employees, community, and the government. If they follow government rules, and can still donate money to the community which they do, pay their employees and provide a good service to their clients, they are doing OK. That is not easy.
If you think these companies are good investments buy stock. They are publicly owned, probably in your 401(k) or 403(b) or in your defined benefit plan.
more batons against skull action, pepper spray those people sitting down in handcuffs, or maybe they will just get down to the beating them to death first thing... welcome to the USSA COMRADES!
I'll morn the death of the USA and it's constitution...may that once great nation be remembered and hopefully another will be created when the herds of sheeple stampede DC.
Stan
I don't know how you got a family with an income of 50,000 paying a 20% tax rate.
Now a family of 4 has a standard deduction of 11,400 and 4 personal exemptions of 3650 each. Giving a total of 26,000 in DEDUCTIONS. That means that their TAXABLE income is 24,000. The tax on 24,000 is 2,769. Now if they have two children under 17 they would get 1,000 for each in Child Tax Credit. That drops their TAX to 769. Then there is the Make Work Pay Tax Credit of 800 if filing jointly. That means the Go'vt OWES THEM $31!!! So I just don't see how you come up with 10,000.
It was an example. Wanna say they made $70,000? Ok. I'm just saying that it took 350,000 families that paid $10,000 to cover GE's welfare.
I, myself, paid $28,500. So, you could also say it took 122,708 families like mine to pay it.
Point is, it takes a whole lot of families just to pay the welfare for GE. And that does not include all the others.
You make a minor point, IMHO.
Then why not use the CORRECT numbers instead of spouting out the Party Line??? If you are so upset that GE paid no Taxes why don't you write Obama and tell him to get rid of the Green Energy Tax Credits that GE got for building Wind Turbines?
Ok, you may notice I did not blame Obama, Democrats, Republicans, Tea Partiers, et. al.
Unlike some who say it must be the left's fault or the right's fault. It isn't.
It is the fault of all the corrupt politicians, of all parties, that are in bed with the corporations for the mutual enrichment of each other.
And who paid for it? Middle class taxpayers. I'm not saying that tax credits are bad in all cases, some are worthwhile.
But no corporations should have negative tax rates. That adds to the deficit that the right complains about and lessens the revenue that the left complains about.
Let's just drop the partisan crap and look at an issue for what it is.