The Week contest: G.E. - Apr. 30, 2010

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Results: After G.E. made a $10.8 billion profit but managed not to pay a single cent in U.S. income taxes, it seemed time to give them a new slogan. You lit in with:

FIRST PRIZE: We Bring Good Things To Us!

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Denny Svitek, Eighty Four, PA

SECOND PLACE: Imagination at Work (In Our Accounting Department)

Bethany Wheeling, Finksburg, MD

THIRD PLACE: Illumination Without Taxation

Debi Hanuscin, Coumbia, MA

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

How many light bulbs does it take to screw a taxpayer?

Virginia Wilkins, Lakewood, CO

Profit is Our Most Important Product

Carl Powers, Gold River, CA

Reducing our carbon footprint by writing fewer checks

Larry Emsweller, Munster, IN

Just another “Bright Idea”

Shirley Burt, Pine Island, MN

Lighting Homes and Cooking Books

Tom Hill, Portland, OR

We make money so you don’t have to

Cydney Langford, LaVergne, TN

Better Living Through Chicanery

Jim Bradt, Clayton, CA

Making tomorrow’s deficit today

Paul Brown, Miami

We support smaller government

Tom Duffey, Fort Myers, FL

We evade taxes and pass the savings on to you!

Tim Lanter, Alexandria, KY

We’re going green!

Gail Watts, Glendale, AZ

Now all that’s inevitable is death

Philip White, Flushing, NY

Government Exempt

Max Legg, Sedro Woolley, WA

Our engineers work as hard as our accountants

Adam Kupec, Pittsburgh

When it comes to paying taxes, we’re number none

Wayne D. Kerr, La Crescenta, CA

We have some of the brightest bulbs in the world…in accounting

Lori Allenbaugh, Bayfield, CO

Magic at Work

Jeff Staser, Anchorage

Ha Ha

Bryan McGrath, Wakefield, MA

GEe, we forgot

John Stinson, Springfield, MO