When will the media honestly explain the amount of taxes actually paid by our corporations and

[glennward]

businesses? When will they be honest about anything?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

1. If and when their corporate owners allow it. n/t

[unblock]

2. they *are* big corporations and their revenue comes from other big corporations.

so, don't hold your breath, sorry to say.

[liberal N proud]

3. The media are corporations

Disclosure agreements don't permit it.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

4. The Corporate Media won't even hold #TraitorTrump accountable for his own taxes.

So, I think the answer is no!

Remember, too, that Chuck Todd said that it's not his ("journalists&quot responsibility to factcheck or hold lying politicians accountable.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. So much for the Founding Fathers wanting an informed public...

... for the sake of democracy. Public schools, libraries, government-funded newspapers (through the postal system), etc.

Socialists!

[rjsquirrel]

6. CNN just did

I was taken aback.

[lapucelle]

7. When Thom Hartman had his Friday Brunch with Bernie show

for years Senator Sanders frequently and powerfully explained the difference between actual corporate tax rates and nominal corporate tax rates. Bernie was brilliant at clarification. I hope we hear from him nationally on this issue. It's great op-ed topic for the firebrand from Vermont.

[procon]

8. Do they even know enough to talk about key issues?

They ask about feelings. They ask about likability. They never challenge anything or ask deeper questions. Who needs 'em? No, seriously, the media could save a fortune by getting rid of all their so called reporters, and just let the vidographer stand there for 60 seconds and film whatever BS the politicians want to say.

[PatSeg]

9. I was watching CNN

for the first time in years because of the Olympics and Tom Foreman actually explained it very clearly more than once.

Though the tax rate for business is 35% plus state and local taxes of about 6%, the average business tax paid is more like 12.6%, because of deductions and tax credits. Meanwhile, 2/3rds of American corporations have no tax liability at all! Also America does not have the highest business tax rates in the world, it is more like the 16th among developed nations.

I was pretty impressed with how he explained it, as I actually remembered it all! This high American business tax BS has been floated around by Republicans for a long time, with it rarely being challenged.

[glennward]

10. hillary needs to address this and explain it. Bill would have done so already.

I'd be for lowering the rate to 25% or 20% if they got rid of all the write-offs, subsidies and loop holes.

[PatSeg]

11. Some people are so good at making things

understandable to the average person. I generally am not good at remembering statistics like that, but Foreman made it quite clear.

Both Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Warren are great communicators. Maybe Hillary should make Warren the economic explainer-in-chief. Before Warren was in the senate, she would go on TV programs and make economics actually interesting. She must have been an amazing professor.

Unfortunately, Hillary and Obama just don't have that gift and I'm not sure it can be taught. Meanwhile, however, it can be delegated to a gifted surrogate.