Private equity firms looking to make millions of pounds from selling the AA breakdown service have come under attack for the tiny amount of corporation tax its holding company has paid.
At the end of this, millions will be still left uncovered, and others financially broken, so a tiny number of corporations can profit.
If Congress has a genuine interest in keeping a tiny number of corporations from controlling most of TV's content, it should establish limits on the amount of programming controlled by the cable giants and tighten rules that bar the distributors from discriminating against their competitors' products.
The Tax Foundation reports that "a review of actual Internal Revenue Service corporate tax return data shows that while the largest corporations in America (those with assets larger than $2.5 billion) represent a tiny fraction of all corporations, they pay an overwhelming share of all federal corporate income taxes".
"Despite his speech, only a tiny fraction of News Corporation's energy appears to be going into securing its newspapers' future online," says Simon Waldman, director of digital publishing at the Guardian.
Finally, even without the backing of either a bank or a major corporation, the tiny Carlos de Amberes Foundation (Claudio Coello, 99; 34-91-435-2201; www.fcamberes.org) still manages to cast a long shadow on Madrid's cultural landscape.
Votes govern the boards of great corporations and tiny charities alike.
For dozens of companies, including giant multinational corporations and tiny internet quacks, the outbreak of swine flu frenzy has turned into a licence to print money.
It is a story that can be heard in almost every corner of the borough as the industry's economic troubles, brought on by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, ripple through Queens, home to two airports that are a major source of employment and are crucial to large corporations and tiny businesses alike.
For someone starting outside the military, this can mean up to six years of apprenticeship, flying small prop jets for charter carriers, corporations or tiny regionals.
