@AC "one-man show"
While I don't mind paying taxes either you have to realize that you and I want our children to grow up in clean countries/Healthcare/education/crome/potholes.
$megacorp does NOT want Healthcare, they want you to pay $$ for it, they do NOT want education, because then you will be able to reason out the horse crap they throw at you in ads, and they DON'T want low crime rates, so they can sell you protection in a box. They want the potholes in the streets so the now broke government has to borrow money to hire $megacorp to repave the roads.
It keeps their stock prices going up. has zero overall real value to society, but it keeps the stock prices going up.
(gumpy old bastard, and yes I'm in a supremely bitchy mood today)