Dec 06 2013  Study: Higher Corporate Taxes = Jobs  One of the
most enduring myths of conservatism is that lower taxes on the
wealthy and on businesses means more jobs. And it’s certainly
true at some point when taxes are extraordinarily high, but that
situation does not exist. A new study finds that corporations
who paid higher taxes created far more jobs over the last few
years than those who paid none.  Paying high tax rates doesn’t
stifle job creation at the country’s biggest, most profitable
companies and low tax rates seem to be more correlated with job
losses, according to a new report from the Center for Effective
Government.  The 30 Fortune 500 companies that paid the highest
tax rates from 2008 to 2010 created about 200,000 jobs from 2008
to 2012, the researchers found. By contrast, the 30 companies
with the lowest actual tax rates in that time frame shed a
collective 51,289 jobs.  The report compared tax data compiled
by Citizens for Tax Justice with employment data from corporate
filings with the S