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Corporations’ tax load light

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Hats off to The Spokesman-Review for running the news item “Plan spends more, for now” (Feb. 2). That was the most easily understood presentation of our national budget dilemma I’ve seen yet.

It doesn’t take a Rhodes scholar to see our expenses far exceed our income. What I’d like to know is why corporations share such a relative small part of our tax burden? No wonder they’re able to pay executives millions of dollars in salary and compensations.

How does their share of tax burden in the United States compare with corporate tax share in other countries? I’m thinking they need to pay CEOs less and pony up their share of taxes here.

BernaDeane Blackburn

Worley, Idaho

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