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Enrique

(27,461 posts)
Wed May 9, 2012, 07:00 PM May 2012

Will this statistic enter the 2012 presidential campaign?

they talk a lot about the economy. Here is a pretty dramatic economic figure.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/fortune-500-company-earnings_n_1497593.html

Fortune released its annual list of the country's 500 biggest companies this week, and it turns out to have been a good year for corporate America. In 2011, the Fortune 500 generated a combined $824.5 billion in earnings -- an all-time record, and a 16 percent jump from the previous year.


Will either candidate mention this? Will the media bring it up to the campaign?

I'm guessing no. I could be wrong, but I'm basing that on the fact that both candidates are proposing corporate tax CUTS at the same time they are both supposedly obsessed about the deficit.

So the debate is between Obama who wants to cut corporate taxes to 28% and Romney who wants to cut it to 25%. But looking at the profits, never seen before, ever, a lot of people might wonder, why cut their taxes at all?

I'm guessing no one wants to hear that question, so everyone will agree to talk about something else.
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