fancyred wrote:
Where do they get the tables they go by?  And why does the Studies Support Krugman: U.S. Corporate Tax Rates Are Similar To Other Countries?  Strawman, yeah unhuh!
  

Nice appeal to authority.  The "weighting" looks like bullshit.  If I "weight" the facts to suit my conclusion, my study will support my conclusions regardless.

Our nominal corporate tax rate is 35%.  I don't know if that's the highest in the world (I haven't looked at the nominal rates of every other nation), but that is the nominal rate.  That's what Fiorana is pointing at.  Pointing at something doesn't make Fiorana wrong.  Pretend special tax breaks for some companies but not others somehow lowers our nominal corporate tax rate is false.  The fact that GE, thanks to a well-funded lobbying machine, is able to pay nothing doesn't keep Ma and Pa's Bait'n'Beer from paying the 35% because they don't have a similar lobbying machine. 



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