Corporate Taxes

This person over at the New York Times  obviously has no idea I exist in any form   has long been a fan of Xmastime, since HERE he suggests that the US "high" corporate tax rate doesn't seem to matter, since corporations don't pay them anyways:

But by taking advantage of myriad breaks and loopholes that other countries generally do not offer, United States corporations pay only slightly more on average than their counterparts in other industrial countries. And some American corporations use aggressive strategies to pay less — often far less — than their competitors abroad and at home. A Government Accountability Office study released in 2008 found that 55 percent of United States companies paid no federal income taxes during at least one year in a seven-year period it studied.

Obviously, I stand by what I wrote fucking three goddam months ago, you people that can't keep up with me:

My problem is their bitching and moaning. For instance, why the fuck does someone like me even know what the corporate tax rate is? The answer is they feel the need to win some sort of public relations game that doesn't actually exist.

Why?  To me, if they really care about what someone like me thinks about how they're being treated tax-wise, why not make a big show of not only accepting the tax rate, but PROUDLY! doing so as an "American company in these hard times!"?  Hey, what's the fucking difference - they're not gonna pay the shit anyway, so what do they care? "39%? 42? Let's make it 45%, fuck it!   I'm a great American!"

They don't pay the shit anyway, at least win their fucking public relations war.