>right, because as a government you want your countries
>businesses to stay in business so you have someone to tax to
>pay for stupid social programs and a very large military.

I don't really see why you think social programs are stupid. Moreover, American companies aren't sharing equally in the tax burden--the value of corporate welfare in America is many times that of public welfare. There's a distinction to be drawn between corporations and small businesses here, too. The corporate welfare I'm talking about goes primarily to large multinationals. The Boeing bailout is a really good example. These kinds of incentives are basically a mechanism to transfer wealth from the poor to the rich.

America taught me how to kidnap and torture cats...