Top 8 Domestic Publicly-Held US Government Contractors Paid Total US Federal Income Tax Rate of 20.7% in the Most Recent Five Years, 14.3% Below the Statutory US Federal Income Tax Rate on Large Corporations of 35.0% ...................................................................................... The Free-Spending Trump Administration Reacts By Irrationally Trying To Force the US Senate To Lower US Federal Income Taxes on These Large Corporations By Another 43% By Reducing the Statutory US Federal Income Tax Rate From 35.0% to 20.0% ...................................................................................... That's Taking the Immense Financial Largesse Already Bestowed By The US Government on US Government Contractors to a Completely Different Level

Based on a review of their audited annual financial statements and income tax footnotes filed with the SEC, below is the US Federal Income Tax Paid along with the related US Pretax Income for each of the most recent five years of each of the Top 8 Domestic US Government Contracting Companies:

																Total	Total
																5 Years	5 Years	5 Years
	2016	2016		2015	2015		2014	2014		2013	2013		2012	2012		2012-16	2012-16	2012-16
	US	US		US	US		US	US		US	US		US	US		US	US	Effective
	Tax	Pretax		Tax	Pretax		Tax	Pretax		Tax	Pretax		Tax	Pretax		Tax	Pretax	US Tax
Top 8 US Govt Contractors	Paid	Income		Paid	Income		Paid	Income		Paid	Income		Paid	Income		Paid	Income	Rate Paid
	mils $s	mils $s		mils $s	mils $s		mils $s	mils $s		mils $s	mils $s		mils $s	mils $s		mils $s	mils $s
United Technologies	30	2,534		328	2,782		319	4,165		616	3,658		403	2,595		1,696	15,734	10.8%
Boeing	1,193	5,175		2,102	6,828		676	6,829		(82)	5,946		657	5,647		4,546	30,425	14.9%
McKesson	524	5,772		658	2,319		453	1,893		484	1,554		(84)	1,562		2,035	13,100	15.5%
L3 Technologies	88	654		60	192		78	707		181	858		198	892		605	3,303	18.3%
Northrop Grumman	661	2,923		310	2,790		701	2,937		803	2,863		912	2,965		3,387	14,478	23.4%
Raytheon	713	3,030		757	2,787		837	2,983		723	2,757		753	2,779		3,783	14,336	26.4%
Lockheed Martin	1,327	4,886		1,573	4,299		1,770	4,677		1,204	4,155		387	4,072		6,261	22,089	28.3%
General Dynamics	698	3,638		841	3,529		856	3,295		850	3,250		876	688		4,121	14,400	28.6%
Total all 8	5,234	28,612		6,629	25,526		5,690	27,486		4,779	25,041		4,102	21,200		26,434	127,865	20.7%