. . . consider this note. Many of these corporations don’t actually pay the rate specified, for the very good reason that there are many special loopholes.
This is redistribution, but in which direction and for what purpose? Yet we’re “redistributing” even more via bail-out money. And to those Republicans who will blame this on the Democrats, the biggest and very poorly managed bail-out was passed under a Republican president, and some of the most irresponsible suggestions were made by a Republican candidate.