[ephextom]

The point is they do pay all kinds of taxes; the more they spend in a year, the more taxes are generated (as I said, employee income taxes, franchise taxes, sales taxes, etc etc etc).

Federal income tax is just one of the many taxes that companies are subjected to, and one that innovative companies normally don't pay anyway because it's not good business to hoard profits, it's much better to invest for future growth, leading to more of all the other kinds of taxes being generated now and into the future.

These rage-bait articles that always focus on corporate income tax only work because many people aren't aware of this.