liabilities. This doesn’t always get mentioned when the Dems attack the rich about their effective tax rates. The Home Depot guy said they can pay more, but in doing so, then they wouldn’t donate as much to charity. I would rather see the money go to charities than our federal government that will just piss it away. The rich also create a lot of jobs. If you tax the heck out of them, it’s less money for them to invest in businesses and would hurt job growth some. The federal government is so wasteful that I personally think it’s always better for the money to stay in people’s pockets and let them decide how to spend it. Corporations get a bad rap too but that’s a different discussion. Until Trump Tax reform dropped the corporate rate down to 21%, the US had one one of the highest corporate rates in the world. You can’t be competitive with that when other countries have 12-15% corporate rates. As for certain companies paying little in tax, it’s usually due to tax credits but to get those credits, such as R&D credit, the work has to be done in the US. So the corporation benefits for making such investments in the US but the government benefits too from individual taxes due to the jobs created from such investment. This also doesn’t get discussed enough when the Dems demonize an individual or company that makes a lot of money. They are just easy targets by the left.