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b_b · 3918 days ago · link · · parent · post: How Corporations are the Biggest Tax Dodgers | The Progressive
They didn't even mention in the article one of the whoppers that a lot of companies use to avoid taxes: lobbying for targeted tax breaks. That is, companies often will get laws written that give the individual company a pass on all or some of their taxes. They said on NPR recently that these targeted tax breaks cost the government way more every year than the Bush-era reduction of the top marginal rate. It's an awe striking miscarriage of journalistic justice that we never hear about, despite all of the revenue coverage that's been happening daily for the last six years.