2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Printed in Des Moines Register: Our caucus: Debaters agree on one thing -- Sanders [View all]Indydem
(2,642 posts)Now you are talking about corporations?
Make up your mind.
But, since you are too ignorant to understand why these companies are paying so little in taxes, I will explain this, again. (This has to be at least the 3rd time I have explained this to you leftists on DU).
9 of the top 10 on that list are power companies. Power companies that our president, and our congress spent a fortune in subsidies and incentives to get to put up windmills, solar, and grid modernization. (And GE, the largest maker of windmills). You can't, in one breath say you want to have greener energy and then in the next breath complain because the government offered incentives to go green! As a matter of fact, 15 of those 26 companies are power companies (and GE) who had money thrown at them to do exactly what we wanted!
Two more are trucking companies, given subsidies in the stimulus package to green up their fleets.
Two more are wireless communication companies, given incentives in the stimulus package to roll out LTE infrastructure to a wider market.
I can list almost each and every one of the others and explain why their tax burden was reduced. Of course, none of that matters to folks like you. If it did, you would have already figured this stuff out on your own, and not just keep regurgitating 3 year old numbers that are easily explainable.