To his credit, Sanders did make that distinction in a June 9, 2010, speech, saying that ExxonMobil "reported to the SEC that not only did it avoid paying any federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million refund from the IRS."
(From the politifact article...) -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 03:12 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: [politics] Cost of tax cuts for the rich exceeds gains by budget cuts On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> They actually pay a lower rate of taxes after all the loopholes, >> rebates, and tax shelters they can take advantage of that most people >> in the middle and lower classes don't have available....so no, the >> actual rate is lower than ours. No http://www.american.com/archive/2007/november-december-magazine-contents/gue ss-who-really-pays-the-taxes > If we're talking about *income* tax then that is completely true. In > fact, Exxon paid more tax to foreign countries (~$15B) than it did to > the US. We got $0. and no http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2010/dec/10/bernie-s/bern ie-sanders-filibuster-exxon-mobil/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336492 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
