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ECCO Womens(2) illustrates the power of corporate lobbyists to win what CTJ calls corporate welfare. And, to the delight of Wall Street, the stimulus package passed by Congress this winter will enlarge those loopholes further.The effective corporate tax rate what companies actually pay as a proportion of their earnings will drop 2.5 percentage points, reckons Bruce Steinberg, chief economist of Merrill Lynch amp Co. (The rate last year was 22.1 percent.)The new tax breaks will add more than a dollar to the total earnings per share of the Standard amp Poor's 500, an index of 500 major American companies. Mr. Steinberg expects SampP 500 earnings to jump 19 percent in 2003 to $56 per share thou
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