“I have no problem with businesses trying to pay as little in taxes as they can.”
This is the fiduciary duty of the officers of the company - to pay any more than is legally required would be a betrayal of the trust of the shareholders.
Well run corporations are not inherently good or evil.
“Well run corporations are not inherently good or evil.”
No, but they are certainly preyed upon by governments at every level. Everybody should remember that corporations do not get to vote in elections. Instead, in self defense, they are forced to spend millions of dollars of their shareholders money each year trying to affect legislation that will serve their shareholders’ interests.
People that complain about corporations lobbying politicians and donating to campaigns should embrace elimination of the corporate income tax and corporate welfare and corporate regulation. Basically, if government left corporations alone, corporations would leave politics alone. Until that happens, corporations will obviously use every legal means possible to avoid punishment (taxes and regulation) and curry favor (corporate welfare, price supports, subsidies, and protective tariffs).