re: You have no idea what can be written off taxes in other countries
Bullshit. You can find comparisons, but they are few and far between. There is lots of money and interest in screaming about high tax rates, but no money and less interest in screaming about deductions.
The percentage of large corporations that end up paying zero or near-zero on US taxes is staggering- its precisely why the wealthy individual taxpayer picks up the largest portion of the US treasury bill (no pun intended).
Yeti