N\u0103m t\u1eadp \u0111o\u00e0n qu\u1ed1c gia v\u00e0 to\u00e0n c\u1ea7u, bao g\u1ed3m General Electric, Western Union v\u00e0 Sprint Nextel, \u0111\u00e3 tr\u1edf th\u00e0nh nh\u1eefng t\u1eadp \u0111o\u00e0n l\u1edbn m\u1edbi nh\u1ea5t tham gia cu\u1ed9c di c\u01b0 kh\u1ecfi H\u1ed9i \u0111\u1ed3ng trao \u0111\u1ed5i l\u1eadp ph\u00e1p Hoa K\u1ef3 (ALEC).<\/p>
Hai c\u00f4ng ty kh\u00e1c l\u00e0 Symantec c\u00f3 tr\u1ee5 s\u1edf t\u1ea1i Mountain View, California v\u00e0 Reckitt Benckiser c\u00f3 tr\u1ee5 s\u1edf t\u1ea1i Parsippany, New Jersey. General Electric c\u00f3 tr\u1ee5 s\u1edf t\u1ea1i Fairfield, Connecticut, Western Union c\u00f3 tr\u1ee5 s\u1edf t\u1ea1i Englewood, Colorado v\u00e0 Sprint Nextel c\u00f3 tr\u1ee5 s\u1edf t\u1ea1i Overland Park, Kansas.<\/p>
Their departures were announced Monday by the civil rights organization Color of Change, one of several groups which along with Common Cause have been working to expose ALEC's tax-subsidized lobbying on behalf of state laws that put private profit ahead of the public interest<\/p>
\"Clearly the light bulb has gone on at General Electric that ALEC's extreme agenda is not good for business,\" said Bob Edgar, president of Common Cause.<\/p>
Amid complaints from Common Cause and other reform groups, 38 companies have left ALEC in recent months. Common Cause has filed a \"tax whistleblower\" complaint against ALEC with the Internal Revenue Service, challenging the group's tax-exemption. ALEC casts itself as a charity, but Common Cause has provided the IRS with more than 4,000 pages of ALEC press releases, \"issue alerts,\" position papers and other materials documenting its lobbying activity.<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"\n