I get that many individuals and companies see taxes as wasted money or theft, but taxes pay to fund the education of the workforce that will work for said corporations and fund the infrastructure used by said corporations to build and transport their goods, including stuff like courts which companies can use do protect their IP or military force projection to protect their assets and investments abroad.

Without the skilled workforce or infrastructure the company will for sure not be competitive.

What most big companies are now doing to get insanely wealthy is have most governments foot the bill for the infrastructure, protection, and education of their workforce, while all the profits from the fruit of their labor go directly to shareholders and the governments don't see a dime in taxes so stuff like education, healthcare and infrastructure is falling apart while corporate profits have never been higher.

> see taxes as wasted money or theft,

You are mixing chicken and eggs here. We had education and skilled people before huge governments stealing massive amounts of taxes from people existed. The disposable income from the population gave rise to bureaucrats who love to tax everything under and pretend that they world cannot run without them. That's pure twisted logic.