<div dir="ltr"><h3 id="gmail-kicker" class="gmail-kicker" style="line-height:1rem;margin:0px 0px 32px"><br></h3><h3 id="gmail-kicker" class="gmail-kicker" style="font-size:0.75rem;line-height:1rem;font-weight:300;font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin:0px 0px 32px;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.075em;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail-kicker-label" style="font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.5rem;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The Opinion Pages</a></span> <span class="gmail-pipe" style="color:rgb(204,204,204);margin:0px 10px 0px 8px;vertical-align:text-bottom">|</span> <span class="gmail-article-kicker">OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR</span><span class="gmail-primer-test"></span></h3><div><span class="gmail-article-kicker"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/corporate-tax-cuts-jobs.html?mcubz=0&mtrref=undefined&assetType=opinion">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/corporate-tax-cuts-jobs.html?mcubz=0&mtrref=undefined&assetType=opinion</a><br></span></div><h1 id="gmail-headline" class="gmail-headline" style="font-size:2rem;line-height:2.25rem;font-weight:500;font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-feature-settings:'kern' 1;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></h1><h1 id="gmail-headline" class="gmail-headline" style="font-size:2rem;line-height:2.25rem;font-weight:500;font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-feature-settings:'kern' 1;color:rgb(0,0,0)">It’s a Myth That Corporate Tax Cuts Mean More Jobs</h1><div id="gmail-story-meta-footer" class="gmail-story-meta-footer" style="border-top:1px solid rgb(226,226,226);padding-top:14px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(226,226,226);padding-bottom:16px;display:flex"><p class="gmail-byline-dateline" style="margin:0px 45px 3px 0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:17px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><span class="gmail-byline" style="font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.75rem;font-weight:700;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;margin-right:12px">By <span class="gmail-byline-author" style="white-space:nowrap">SARAH ANDERSON</span></span><time class="gmail-dateline" datetime="2017-08-30T10:26:53-04:00" style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.75rem;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:0px">AUG. 30, 2017</time></p><p class="gmail-byline-dateline" style="margin:0px 45px 3px 0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:17px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><time class="gmail-dateline" datetime="2017-08-30T10:26:53-04:00" style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.75rem;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:0px"><br></time></p><p class="gmail-byline-dateline" style="margin:0px 45px 3px 0px;font-size:1rem;line-height:17px;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><time class="gmail-dateline" datetime="2017-08-30T10:26:53-04:00" style="white-space:nowrap;font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.75rem;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-left:0px"><br></time></p></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><figure id="gmail-media-100000005399217" class="gmail-media gmail-photo gmail-lede gmail-layout-large-horizontal" style="display:flex;margin:0px 0px 45px;clear:both;width:705px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-image" style="margin-bottom:7px"><img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/08/30/opinion/30anderson/30anderson-master768.jpg" alt="" class="gmail-media-viewer-candidate" style="height: auto; max-width: 100%; display: block; width: 705px;"><div class="gmail-media-action-overlay" style="border-radius:6px;opacity:1;border:1px solid rgba(200,200,200,0.8)"><span class="gmail-icon gmail-sprite-icon" style="display:inline-block;line-height:0;vertical-align:middle;background-image:url("/assets/article/20170816-103801/images/sprite/sprite-no-repeat.svg");background-repeat:no-repeat;background-position:-256px -135px;width:38px;height:38px"></span></div></div><figcaption class="gmail-caption" style="font-size:0.8125rem;line-height:1.0625rem;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;color:rgb(102,102,102);max-width:630px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px"><span class="gmail-credit" style="font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:1rem;display:inline-block;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span class="gmail-visually-hidden" style="width:1px;height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden">Credit</span>Wesley Bedrosian</span></figcaption></figure><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">“The arithmetic for us is simple,” AT&T’s chief executive, Randall Stephenson, <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/video/2017/05/04/att-ceo-tax-cuts-means-more-jobs-for-hard-hat-workers.html" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">said on CNBC</a> in May. If Congress were to cut the 35 percent tax on corporate profits to 20 percent, he declared, “I know exactly what AT&T would do — we’d invest more” in the United States.</p><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Every $1 billion in tax savings would create 7,000 well-paying jobs, Mr. Stephenson went on to say. The correlation between lower corporate taxes and more jobs, he assured viewers, runs “very, very tight.”</p><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">As Congress prepares to take up tax legislation this fall, including an effort to reduce the corporate tax rate, this bold jobs claim merits examination. Notably, it comes from the chief executive of a company that’s already paying comparatively little in federal taxes.</p><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">According to the <a href="https://itep.org/wp-content/uploads/35percentfullreport.pdf" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy</a>, AT&T enjoyed an effective tax rate of just 8 percent between 2008 and 2015, despite recording a profit in the United States each year, by exploiting tax breaks and loopholes. (The company argues that it pays significant taxes, at a rate close to 34 percent in recent years, but that includes deferred taxes and state and local levies.)</p><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" id="gmail-story-continues-1" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Despite the enormous savings AT&T has realized, the company has been downsizing. Although it hires thousands of people a year, the company, by our analysis at the Institute for Policy Studies, reduced its total work force by nearly 80,000 jobs between 2008 and 2016, accounting for acquisitions and spinoffs each involving more than 2,000 workers.</p></div><div dir="ltr"><article id="gmail-story" class="gmail-story gmail-theme-main" style="margin-top:7px;margin-bottom:32px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-story-body-supplemental" style="display:flex"><div class="gmail-story-body gmail-story-body-2" style="width:705px"><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" id="gmail-story-continues-3" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px">The company has also spent $34 billion repurchasing its own stock since 2008, according to our institute<a href="http://www.ips-dc.org/report-corporate-tax-cuts-boost-ceo-pay-not-jobs/" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)"> report</a>, a maneuver that artificially inflates the value of a company’s shares. This is money that could have gone toward research and development or hiring.</p><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px">Companies buy back their stock for various reasons — to take advantage of undervaluation, to reward stockholders by increasing the value of their shares or to make the company look more attractive to investors. And there is another reason. Because most executive compensation these days is based on stock value, higher share prices can raise the compensation of chief executives and other top company officials.</p><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px">Since 2008, Mr. Stephenson has cashed in $124 million in stock options and grants.</p><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px">Many other large American corporations have also been playing the tax break and loophole game. Their huge tax savings have enriched executives but not created significant numbers of new jobs.</p><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px">Our report analyzes the 92 publicly held American corporations that reported a profit in the United States every year from 2008 through 2015 and paid less than 20 percent of their earnings in federal income tax.</p><div class="gmail-newsletter-signup" id="gmail-newsletter-promo" style="border-top:1px solid rgb(226,226,226);padding-top:15px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(226,226,226);padding-bottom:15px;width:300px;margin:7px 30px 15px 75px;float:left;clear:left"><h2 class="gmail-visually-hidden" id="gmail-newsletter-promo-heading" style="font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.375rem;width:1px;height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden">Newsletter Sign Up</h2><a class="gmail-visually-hidden gmail-skip-to-text-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/opinion/corporate-tax-cuts-jobs.html?mcubz=0&mtrref=undefined&assetType=opinion#continues-post-newsletter" style="width:1px;height:1px;padding:0px;border:0px;overflow:hidden;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(50,104,145)">Continue reading the main story</a><h3 class="gmail-headline" style="font-size:1.25rem;line-height:1.375rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding-bottom:2px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Sign Up for the Opinion Today Newsletter</h3><p class="gmail-summary" style="margin:0px 0px 14px;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.125rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Every weekday, get thought-provoking commentary from Op-Ed columnists, the Times editorial board and contributing writers from around the world.</p><form name="regilite" class="gmail-newsletter-form" method="post" style="margin:0px;width:300px;height:auto"><div class="gmail-control gmail-input-control" style="margin-bottom:10px"><div class="gmail-form-errors"></div><div class="gmail-field-container" style="font-size:0.8125rem;line-height:0.9375rem;font-weight:700;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;border-radius:4px;height:30px;padding:4px 4px 4px 8px;border:1px solid rgb(226,226,226)"><input id="email" name="email" class="email-input" type="email" value="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:0.8125rem;line-height:0.9375rem;font-weight:700;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:middle;border-radius:3px;box-sizing:border-box;border-width:initial;border-style:none;height:30px;padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;width:200.188px"><button id="gmail-submit-button" type="submit" class="gmail-button gmail-submit-button" style="margin:4px 5px 0px 0px;font-size:0.8125rem;vertical-align:middle;line-height:0.8125rem;font-weight:700;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;border-radius:4px;padding:4px 7px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(204,204,204);background:rgb(243,243,243);color:rgb(51,51,51);float:right">Sign Up</button></div></div><div class="gmail-control gmail-checkbox-control" style="margin-bottom:12px"><div class="gmail-field-container" style="float:left;width:22px"><input id="gmail-special-offers" class="gmail-checkbox" type="checkbox" name="special-offers" value="MM" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:16px;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin-top:2px;vertical-align:middle;width:15px;padding:0px"></div><div class="gmail-label-container" style="padding-left:22px;float:none"><label class="gmail-checkbox-label" for="special-offers" style="color:rgb(102,102,102);font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.9rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline-block;margin-top:0px">You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times's products and services.</label></div></div><div class="gmail-g-recaptcha" id="gmail-captcha-container" style="transform: scale(0.77, 0.77); transform-origin: 0px 0px 0px;"><div style="width:304px;height:78px"></div></div></form><div class="gmail-messages"></div><ul class="gmail-footer" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;list-style:none;padding:6px 0px 0px;border-top:1px solid rgb(226,226,226);font-size:0.625rem;line-height:0.9375rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif"><li id="gmail-sample-newsletter-link" class="gmail-sample" style="font-size:0.5625rem;line-height:0.6875rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;border-left:none;display:inline;width:auto;padding:0px 5px 0px 0px;text-transform:uppercase"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/sample/opinion-today?pgtype=subscriptionspage&version=new&contentId=TY&eventName=sample&module=newsletter-sign-up" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,102,102)">SEE SAMPLE</a></li> <li class="gmail-privacy" style="font-size:0.5625rem;line-height:0.6875rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,ari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son-tells-employees-call-congress-topush-tax-reform" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">town hall</a> this month at AT&T headquarters in Dallas, Mr. Stephenson urged his employees to call Congress and demand a corporate tax cut.</p><p class="gmail-story-body-text gmail-story-content" style="margin:0px 0px 1em 75px;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.625rem;font-family:georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;max-width:none;width:570px">The message policy makers really need to hear? Stop peddling the myth that “tax relief” for big companies will be good for the rest of us.</p><footer class="gmail-story-footer gmail-story-content" style="max-width:none;margin-right:0px;margin-left:75px;width:570px;margin-top:24px;clear:both"><div class="gmail-story-meta"><div class="gmail-story-notes"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.125rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Sarah Anderson (<a href="http://twitter.com/anderson_ips" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">@Anderson_IPS</a>) is the director of the Global Economy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.</p></div><div class="gmail-story-info"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.125rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><em>Follow The New York Times Opinion section on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nytopinion" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/NYTOpinion" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">Twitter (@NYTopinion)</a>, and sign up for the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/opiniontoday/" style="color:rgb(50,104,145)">Opinion Today newsletter</a>. <br></em></p></div><p class="gmail-story-print-citation" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.9375rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)">A version of this op-ed appears in print on August 30, 2017, on Page A23 of the <span>New York edition</span> with the headline: Corporate Tax Cuts Don’t Mean More Jobs. <span class="gmail-story-footer-links" style="display:inline-block"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/todayspaper/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Today's Paper</a><span class="gmail-pipe" style="color:rgb(204,204,204);margin:0px 3px">|</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/subscriptions/Multiproduct/lp839RF.html?campaignId=48JQY" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(153,153,153)">Subscrib</a></span></p><p class="gmail-story-print-citation" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.9375rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-story-print-citation" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.9375rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(153,153,153)"><br></p></div></footer></div><div class="gmail-supplemental" id="gmail-supplemental-2" style="display:flex;width:360px"><div class="gmail-supplemental-items" style="margin-bottom:45px;height:auto;max-height:900px;display:flex"><div id="gmail-marketing-ad" class="gmail-ad gmail-marketing-ad gmail-marginalia-anchor-ad gmail-marginalia-item gmail-nocontent gmail-robots-nocontent" style="width:300px;margin-bottom:45px"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/opinion_10__container__" style="border:0pt none;display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px"></div></div><div id="gmail-medium-rectangle-ad-4" class="gmail-ad gmail-ad-placeholder gmail-medium-rectangle-ad gmail-marginalia-item gmail-nocontent gmail-robots-nocontent" style="width:300px"><div id="gmail-google_ads_iframe_/29390238/NYT/opinion_11__container__" style="border:0pt none;display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px"></div></div></div></div></div></article><aside class="gmail-module gmail-trending-module gmail-nocontent gmail-robots-nocontent" style="width:360px;border-top:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-top:10px;margin:0px 0px 45px 30px;float:right;clear:right;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:nyt-cheltenham,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;font-size:16px"><div class="gmail-nocontent gmail-robots-nocontent"><header><h2 class="gmail-module-heading" style="font-size:0.6875rem;line-height:0.6875rem;font-family:nyt-franklin,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-transform:uppercase">TRENDING</h2></header><ol style="margin:0px 0px 3px;padding:0px"><li style="font-size:1.1875rem;line-height:1.1875rem;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-extra-cn-bd,georgia,"times new roman",times,serif;border-top:none;padding-top:0px;display:flex;margin-bottom:6px;list-style-type:none;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a class="gmail-story-link" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/31/us/harvey-houston-texas-flood.html" style="display:block;color:rgb(50,104,145);text-decoration-line:none;font-size:0.8125rem;line-height:1rem;font-family:nyt-cheltenham-sh,georgi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