One more reason to hate huge corporations…

By taking advantage of a provision in the law that allows expanding companies like Mr. Murdoch’s to defer taxes to future years, the News Corporation paid no federal taxes in two of the last four years, and in the other two it paid only a fraction of what it otherwise would have owed. During that time, Securities and Exchange Commission records show, the News Corporation’s domestic pretax profits topped $9.4 billion.

You know, I’m an expanding person, can I defer for a few years while I get on track? No big deal, we don’t need that tax money. We will just fight the war on terror by trading tobacco for bullets.