It only makes sense that multinationals "put costs in high-tax countries and profits in low-tax countries," says Scott Hodge, president of the Tax Foundation. Last year GE improved on its 2008 effective tax rate of 5.3% - it not only paid no tax on its $10.3 billion in pretax income, but recorded a tax benefit of $1.1 billion. Paul Hawken, author of The Ecology of Commerce, found data in the early 1990s indicating that the nation’s corporations were net consumers, rather than producers, of tax monies - they are major recipients of corporate welfare. They demand major tax breaks to relocate. According to a report from the Cato Institute, businesses in America receive direct tax subsidies of more than $75 billion annually.

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