Replies to post #488186 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[hap0206]

so, you are going with "2" -- that is confirmed ?

we shall see

and do you have a link for this

>>>these tax breaks lead to very low tax rates on certain types of investments — even negative rates in some cases. For example, a 2005 Congressional Budget Office study found that the effective marginal corporate rate — the rate paid on the last dollar of income earned and arguably the tax rate most relevant for investment decisions — on debt-financed investment in machinery was negative, estimated at -46 percent.[4] This means that the total value of the deductions that companies may claim for such investment is much larger than the tax they pay. (Put another way, it means that other taxpayers effectively subsidize the investment.) A recent Government Accountability Office study similarly found wide variation in effective tax rates across corporations<<<


gosh, I have been looking for that edge all my life -- would I like to have a piece of that