> they pay 80% of collected taxes out of resources given to them by the state, who has given them the license and economic structure to support their entrepreneurship. or does steve jobs do the majority of the work, and the united states of america with its three-hundred year history the minority of the work, in making apple possible?  corporations are branches that spring out of the root of good government, they don't emerge in a vacuum. if they want to consider tax money their property rather than the reasonable due owed to the res publica in return for its service to them let them go to pakistan and try to start their company.  in reality the tax rate on these corporations and ceos should be at 80% on everything which is not reinvested into enterprise, not the 40% or so it stands at now. you aren't charitable for giving something legally obligated of you. you're just rich and weak.
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