How Big Corporations Get Big Tax Breaks

As Congress tightens the national budget belt, big corporations are getting monster tax breaks, with the help of high paid lobbyists. Tom Ashbrook talks to Christopher Rowland and David Cay Johnson about how corporations get tax breaks.

Christopher Rowland

Christopher Rowland is the Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe and an author. (@globerowland)

David Cay Johnston

David Cay Johnston is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and columnist at “taxanalysts.com.” and an author. (@DavidCayJ)
Source: On Point with Tom Ashbrook: Big Corporations Lobbying For Big Tax Breaks


The Myth of a Polarized America

Morris Fiorina argues that Americans are far less polarized than the public is led to believe by the media and political pundits. Morris Fiorina is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor of political science at Stanford University and an author.
Source: Book TV at the Hoover Institution: Morris Fiorina, "Culture War?: The Myth of a Polarized America"

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