In 2007-2008-2009
Right-Wing-Nut Rupert Murdoch's
News Corporation, which has subsidiaries in the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Channel Islands and the Virgin Islands. annual tax bill averaged around four per cent of its profits in the USA.

the average EFFECTIVE tax for fortune 1000 COMPANIES IS 7% ...NOT 35%

NOTE: ACTUAL EFFECTIVE TAX...

So what you're saying, Sammy, is that the conservative, presumably anti-tax Murdoch is paying taxes at a higher rate than the liberal, pro-tax Google.

Interesting. Thanks for bringing forward this second inconsistency.

The spectre of the tax and spend liberal won't die until Frank Lutz' polls tell the GOP it no longer resonates; but what does it mean? Cut-tax-itis went bipartisan in '08 and shows no signs of remission. Why? Because the American taxpayer has been told that raising revenues to close a gigantic deficit is not neccessary, that indeed cutting revenues will somehow (magically I guess) aleviate the problem - and we've all decided to believe that this is true.

Likewise, we haven't seen a "fiscally responsible" Republican hold national office in forty years. Every one since Nixon has grown the gov't and increased spending (and deficits). Why? The same reason Dems do it: Americans love stuff and expect their gov't to provide it. Yet the Republican "small gov't" boilerplate still has run.

See this post and the responses for an example. Two corporate behomeths. One "left", one "right"; both dogging the US taxpayer at rates of fraud only marginally separate. While we argue their relative morality, they - and their symbiotic political class - laugh.

One things for sure: This love of stuff and hatred of paying for it can't go on forever.

No Monique
I am saying that the actual effective corporate tax rate, for large businesses in the USA is 7% not 35%
You obviously don't understand the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion.
The folks at Google were just using the Bush/GOP/right-wing................. Tax Codes to their advantage
Just as Mrs. John McCain and Mitt Romney
have done

Wouldn't it be nice if tax laws were really simple and didn't require armies of accountants and lawyers to figure out? If this sort of evasion/avoidance by companies that span states and countries couldn't happen the way it does now?

As for the Bing switch, Microsoft plays some dirty tricks, too. Bing is an example of capitalism run-amok:

Last I checked, Microsoft loses money on virtually every business unit except for Windows, Office, and the Macintosh division. Everything else (the music players, phone operating systems, XBOX, Bing, etc.) are financial drags on the company, subsidized by your purchases of Office and Windows. Why do they do this? Because they're the biggest, richest bully on the block, and they don't -like- that someone else makes better products (iPod, iPhone, Google search, etc.). You might 'make the switch' to products that work better.