[Rick Lee]

It doesn't matter how much CFC or BAC write off. Corporations don't really pay taxes. They collect them from consumers by building them into the price of their products and services and then pass them back to the gov't. They are merely a tax collector. Always drives me nuts to hear politicians say they're gonna finance this or that project - road, bridge, football stadium - with a new business tax. Consumers think it doesn't affect them, but they are the ones who pay it.