Jungle wrote "At last we come to the real indoctrination.

My premise is that neither party has helped stop the decline of unions over the last 56 years.

You want to squirm around with the statistics to make one side look good and ignore the bottom line.
That is ok, but it ignores the end result."

The data speaks for itself. If you choose to ignore it. That's fine. But emphasizing and end result with out any understanding of how it is derived is of little use.


Part of your dogma wails that corporations pay no taxes, most real sources blow that out of the water:Tax bills for 5 corporate giants - Exxon Mobil: $15.1 billion (2) - CNNMoney.com

On the corporate tax issue, it's obvious from the discussion we were talking about the U.S. and therefore U.S. Taxes. According to your own link Exxon paid zero U.S. tax on income and in fact had a - $156 million federal tax liability. That's a powerball size tax return. Thanks again for providing support for my argument.

ThinkProgress ExxonMobil paid no federal income tax in 2009. (Updated)
Study says most corporations pay no U.S. income taxes | Reuters

Like I said, corporations pay little to no taxes.