bacchys wrote:
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. 




I have seen those same tables on the Government site, not just lately.   In fact a few years ago I posted the URL to the site and that was before my other computer went down.  I would pull it if I could find it.  The tables basically showed the same thing you see in the article I posted.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight Eisenhower