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In truth, our corporate tax code is a Hieronymus Bosch nightmare of political favoritism, market distortion, and rent-seeking representing the worst aspects of the unsavory nexus between Big Business and Big Government.

Which is how the politicians designed it so as to allow them to extract money to buy votes and line their own pockets.

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Good old Corney capitalism. Another way of saying the dumb-ass in fly over land will never catch this one.