"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the US public believes is false"

[Hannah Bell]

= William J. Casey, 1981

Like others in Congress and the media, Cantor, Bachmann, and Pawlenty insist that American businesses are paying too much in corporate income tax. They claim the onerous tax burden is killing jobs and forcing companies to move abroad. To reverse the nation's fortunes, they say, all Washington need do is slash the corporate tax rate, thereby reducing the amount of taxes these businesses are forced to pay. What's scary is a growing number of citizens believe them.

That means a forecast made years ago by William J. Casey, a wily Republican from another era who liked to dabble in the intelligence world's black arts inside and outside the country, and who helped craft the election of Ronald Reagan, is coming true. After taking office, President Reagan installed Casey as head of the CIA in 1981. After his first staff meeting at the agency, Casey was quoted as saying:

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false."

One of the more egregious falsehoods being peddled by the corporate tax cutters is that companies doing business in the United States are taxed at an exorbitant rate. Not so. Though the United States has one of the highest statutory rates on the books at 35 percent, the only fair way to measure what companies actually pay is their effective rate - what they ultimately pay after deductions, credits, and assorted write-offs. By that yardstick, companies in the United States consistently pay taxes at rates lower than corporations in Japan and many nations in Europe...

http://articles.philly.com/2011-04-17/news/29427956_1_tax-collections-corporate-tax-write-offs

[xchrom]

1. Recommend

[Mnemosyne]

2. Mission completed. K&R n/t

[n2doc]

3. The evil generated by these thugs is breathtaking

Just to have a so-called "public servant" boast about disinformation is sickening. These people , including their present day minions, are just plain evil.

[notesdev]

4. It's complete

do we winz a prize?

[blindpig]

5. It has been a massive effort

Casey takes too much credit though, this shit has been going on for 100 years, government and private effort.

[notesdev]

6. Explanation

Perhaps a more telling yardstick, corporate tax revenue in 2009 came to just 1 percent of gross domestic product - the lowest collection level since 1936, or three-quarters of a century ago. In 2010, it edged up to a puny 1.3 percent - the second-lowest since 1940. Even worse, the shriveled tax collections came at a time when corporations were registering an all-time high in profits.

That's because these "profits" are being made by firing US workers and replacing them with foreign workers, while getting a tax break for offshoring those profits in the process!

[Overseas]

7. K&R.

Sadly, Bush "winning" two elections emboldened the liars still further.

But getting Democrats to deregulate media ownership and conglomeration really opened the floodgates. After that the right wing knew they could have endless repetition on their side. Media consolidated into conservative hands to pound their messages home.

And now we can see that even public opinion doesn't matter. Large percentages can support taxing the rich and closing tax loopholes for corporations and not be acknowledged.

Thousands can show up for anti-Republican rallies and hundreds at Koch Parties get more coverage.

[Scruffy1]

8. K&R

[Solly Mack]

9. k/r

[StarburstClock]

10. and when presented the truth they snap back with perfect cognitive dissonance fear

defending their flawed positions rather than face the pain that they've self-deluded themselves into eventually facing anyway. "Bots" are not mentally healthy individuals.

[slipslidingaway]

11. knr nt

[leftstreet]

12. K&R

[glinda]

13. K & R n/t

[krispos42]

14. Didn't GE get a $3 billion tax refund this year? n/t