US Big 10 National/Regional Banks, Led By Wells Fargo, Paid Total US Federal Income Tax Rate of 23.6% in the Most Recent Five Years, 11.4% 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% ...................................................................................... State Street Corp Also Has $5.5 Bil and Wells Fargo $2.4 Bil of Foreign Earnings They Will Be Able to Repatriate Cheaply Under the Trump Tax Proposal

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 US Big 10 National/Regional Banks and also for 3 Smaller Southwest Indiana Banks for the most recent five years:

																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
	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
US Big 10 National Banks
State Street Corp	(14)	900		52	998		59	1,107		193	1,436		148	1,656		438	6,097	7.2%
PNC Financial Services Grp	871	5,253		927	5,507		1,084	5,614		263	5,688		453	4,039		3,598	26,101	13.8%
Sun Trust Bank	667	2,692		707	2,707		365	2,278		(158)	1,683		592	2,796		2,173	12,156	17.9%
M&T Bank	429	2,058		130	1,675		379	1,642		371	1,718		309	1,553		1,618	8,646	18.7%
Fifth Third Bancorp	598	2,065		662	2,365		424	2,028		494	2,598		327	2,210		2,505	11,266	22.2%
BB&T Corp	959	3,500		585	2,917		706	3,127		1,007	3,124		275	2,792		3,532	15,460	22.8%
Wells Fargo	6,712	32,120		10,822	33,641		7,321	33,915		4,601	32,629		9,141	28,471		38,597	160,776	24.0%
US Bancorp	2,585	8,105		1,956	8,030		1,888	7,995		1,885	7,764		1,853	7,726		10,167	39,620	25.7%
Bank New York Mellon	823	3,147		551	2,698		1,273	2,456		714	2,428		348	2,017		3,709	12,746	29.1%
Capital One Financial	2,087	4,897		1,991	5,593		1,934	6,103		1,581	6,119		1,590	4,888		9,183	27,600	33.3%
Total all 10	15,717	64,737		18,383	66,131		15,433	66,265		10,951	65,187		15,036	58,148		75,520	320,468	23.6%
SW Indiana Smaller Banks
Old National Bancorp	24	200		17	163		9	142		14	143		21	128		85	776	11.0%
First Financial Corp	16	58		10	41		9	48		10	45		12	47		57	239	23.8%
German American Bancorp	11	49		11	42		9	40		9	37		10	35		50	203	24.6%