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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1935424" data-attributes="member: 229">I don't know that I agree with this.  If you are offered tax breaks (or you find loopholes) and other companies / citizens don't because they don't have the money to do so, isn't the government just rewarding the exact same behavior on both ends of the scale (willingness to break the rules by any means necessary).What if you (as a business) have a team of lawyers, and some pretty strong-armed paid lobbyists on the payroll - and you set out to get out of paying your fair share of taxes (or the government creates regulations that exempt you from taxes, but don't allow smaller companies to do so because they don't have a global presence, or because they don't have enough lawyers to come up with good enough loop-holes)?</blockquote>