Kasz216 said:
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That's only selectively true. They have half our official corporate tax rate for big business, but we don't actually charge any big businesses those corporate taxes. For example, through legislation oil companies pay what is for all intents and purposes zero taxes. The same is true of large technology companies (Microsoft, Apple) and many many manufacturing companies. That said, our government has certainly become bloated and lumbering, and needs major reform in general.
If you want to know what screws over US business and labor for the average employee it's that our corporations pay their CEOs about four times the global average for an equal position (yay American greed!). If even 1/3rd of the money paid to the top 5% in the US was distributed down to the businesses themselves we could create a job surpluss, raise wages for the lower and middle class, and increase training available. This is why trickle-down economics does not work. Greed trumps intelligent business operation every time, with the few exceptions of the occasional charitable billionaire like Warren Buffett or Bill Gates.
PS: I will happily flee this mess of a country some day for somewhere like Canada.