From my understanding, being a Delaware company saves you $0 in taxes. All of those corporations are registered as foreign corps in CA and paying taxes just as if they were CA-based corporations. Taxes aren't why you do DE.
Why would you call that corruption?
Corruption from whose perspective?
How much impact do you think that has on roads being maintained or not (or more generally, local/state funding and budget management)?
To answer your question, I would say this has has high impact on the quality of life here, including the roads, education systems, policing, safety, and everything else in society. Everything is interconnected, and our society's structures are built with the assumption of no corruption. But there is a lot, it's pervasive and defining, and it has numerous consequences like poor quality of life for a lot of people in a high-expense area.
> Systematic wealth collection by mega corporations and individuals, structured to increase their wealth and the expense of the poor.
What do these have to do with different income tax rates in separate states?
Its like you had a google alert on "corruption" and had all those responses on your clipboard regardless of the context.
My approach was to ask OP for elaboration just for the comedy of watching their argument fall apart, but with the opportunity that they had a sound clarification or new information I hadn't considered.
Today we got comedy.
It is. Roads in the Bay Area are among the worst in the country, despite this region producing enormous corporate profits. Nearly all the companies here operate in an eternal tragedy of the commons, whereby nobody will pay local taxes because nobody else does. All the companies in California are actually Delaware companies, and the income inequality and quality-of-life disparity is a direct result of this kind of corruption.