I'm appalled at business whose business plan consists solely of manipulating government ignorance, or using government as a club to beat their competitors instead of out-competing them. So I mostly agree with your post with two slight exceptions.
First, we normally want to hold government to a higher standard because they exist off tax dollars as opposed to making their money honestly off willing customers like a business. That distinction obviously doesn't apply in this case, but the instinct is ingrained.
Second, the tone of the statement in the article is that it's corporations that are primarily to blame rather than the only entity that has the ability to fiddle with the tax code, the government. It's as if, if you told the author the government was intimately involved in and bore a large share of the responsibility for this thing he doesn't like, he wouldn't believe you.
Okay, so why do we assume that these are legitimate corporations? How about considering that they are shells conceived and constructed for the sole purpose of bilking the government (tax payers) on behalf of certain politicians or ex-politicians, like Al Gore.
The far lefties have a lot of experience in creating nonprofits and skimming their “salaries” and “bonuses” from these fraudulent entities. They also have a lot of experience in infiltrating and taking over legitimate charities and steering the money flow to their nefarious designs.
Search a carbon trading company to its roots and you find the same old crooks.
Don’t blame real capitalists for this fiasco till someone does a lot of sifting of the origins of these so-called “corporations.”