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It doesn't say they don't pay the rate. It says they don't pay much more in a monetary sense than corporations in other countries.
And as for that "55 percent" which supposedly paid no federal income taxes . . . did they make a profit? Such a number is meaningless without context.
A lot of the statistics the socialist wing give out are misleading anyway. Many corporations had actual losses a few years back during the recession, which they are able to carry forward to offset recovery income, thereby reducing taxable income.
Of course, as you pointed out, about half of Americans in any given year actually get money back from the government not actually earned (EIC, child credits, etc.) or have an effective taxable income of 0. The left like to leave that little stain out.