There's more to it than that. Yes it may be true that a large successful company didn't pay or paid very little income taxes but there's a reason for it. A lot of companies get tax credits say for R&D. One of the requirements for the R&D credit is that it must be conducted in the US. So the company does R&D in the US, hires employees (most likely leases a building) to do this research to get the tax credit. People seem to forget that the Government is still getting tax revenues from the personal income taxes of these employees. So companies get a tax credit but they also created job growth in the US and the government is still getting individual tax revenue. There's not one company or individual that will pay more tax than they have to under the current tax law. On the personal income tax side, the rich get criticized by the left for having effective tax rates below that of the average American. First of all, let's not forget that half the population pays $0 income taxes. The rich may have an ETR less than the average American but they are still most likely paying millions and the reason their ETR is lower is due to their generous donations to charity that pull down the ETR, but people don't talk about that. The owner of Home Depot said he can definitely pay more income taxes but then it will come at a cost of not being able to give as much to charity. At the end of the day, no company or individual should be vilified for being successful or paying the least amount of tax that they have to under the tax code. Finally, I think it will be a bad idea if Biden raises the federal rate to 28% which has been floated around. People bitch about jobs that got shifted to other countries. Not that long ago, we had the highest corporate tax rate in the world. It's no wonder companies started moving jobs to Ireland and places like that where you can have a 15% corporate rate. Our current 21% corporate rate has helped but moving it back up to 25-28% under Biden plan will put US companies at a disadvantage again. Just my two cents.