CBS Ignores Study on Job Losses From Tax Hikes; Cited 'Cost to Taxpaye

Matthew Balan
July 18th, 2012 5:26 PM
A study released Wednesday from accounting firm Ernst & Young, which estimated that the U.S. would lose 710,000 jobs if the Bush-era tax cuts on the highest income earners aren't renewed, apparently isn't newsworthy to CBS. The network's Tuesday evening and Wednesday morning newscasts omitted the study, which also predicted that the nation's already struggling economic output would decline…
 

Study: U.S. Companies Pay Sixth-Highest Effective Corporate Tax Rate W

Ken Shepherd
April 15th, 2011 5:16 PM
Yesterday afternoon, the Bloomberg financial news service picked up on a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers showing that U.S. companies pay the sixth highest effective corporate tax rates in the world. "The tax rate for the largest U.S. companies between 2006 and 2009 was 27.7 percent, compared with a non-U.S. average of 19.5 percent, according to the study," reporter Richard Rubin noted. "…