1) Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009.  Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS.

2) Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS in 2010, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Fed of nearly $1 trillion. 

3) Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the US, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS.

4) Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it made $10 billion in profits in 2009.

5) Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year. 

6) Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, received $134 million in tax breaks from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction.

7) Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1% of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve.

8) In 2010, Citigroup made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes. It also received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve.

9) ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the US, made $16 billion in profits from 2007 through 2009, while receiving $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.

10) Over the past five years, Carnival Cruise Lines made more than $11 billion in profits, but its federal income tax rate during those years was just 1.1%.