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| Subject: ANCAP Good News: Of the 500 big companies in the S& P’s stock index, 115 paid a total corporate tax rate — of less than 20 percent Sun Jul 31, 2011 7:42 pm | |
| Thirty-nine of those companies paid a rate less than 10 percent.
Over the last five years, on the other hand, Boeing paid a total tax rate of just 4.5 percent, according to Capital IQ. Southwest Airlines paid 6.3 percent. And the list goes on: Yahoo paid 7 percent; Prudential Financial, 7.6 percent; General Electric, 14.3 percent.
http://blogs.forbes.com/peterferrara/2011/07/28/president-obama-is-no-longer-tethered-to-reality/#comment-294
Though they shouldn't be paying anything...
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