Also, there are tons and tons of people who complain about taxes but don't do anything about them. Do you vote? Did you ever run for any public position? Did you ever write a letter to someone in a public position making an awesome suggestion, or volunteering your time to help fix the system you think is overinflated? (Just examples, you know what I mean...)
Of course I WISH taxes were lower, I love money! But I also believe that despite it's many, many, GLARING flaws... The USA is the best country on the planet, and I want to support that.
Isn't that what they are doing?
That analogous thing would be for a company to stop all business within a country, which is not being done.
You know what you need to do that? It's in the tax law.
If it's saving them billions dollars a year - then that "small part" just might be your most important asset as a company.
That's a big assumption.
The moral angle here is that companies shouldn't avoid the taxes of the very environment that enabled them to succeed in the first place.
So I think what he's basically getting at is that paying your (corporate) taxes is basically like "giving back" to that system/environment.
That's the way I think about it, anyways.