On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:09:56 -0500, Pete C. wrote:

> George Leppla wrote:
>>
>> On 7/18/2011 7:59 AM, George wrote:
>>> I am all for it. As far as ge you would need to ask Obama since jeff
>>> immelt is his good buddy (Obama even made him head of his "jobs council"
>>> even though ge is directly responsible for taking numerous good jobs off
>>> shore).
>>
>> C'mon, George... you know better than that. GE and the other big
>> companies who pay no tax are doing so based on tax cuts and loopholes
>> that were put in place almost 10 years ago. Obama had nothing to do
>> with the current tax code that makes this possible.
>>
>> George L
>
> The claim that these corporation pay no taxes is simply false. Those
> claims are based only on corporate income taxes, and ignore the millions
> in other taxes that those corporations pay.

....just like the wingers who whine about the 47% of household who 'pay no
tax.':

<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/business/economy/14leonhardt.html>

i submit, however, that most corporations are better able to afford paying
taxes than households that don't make enough money to be required to.

blake