How many times have you heard "Corporate tax breaks are being subsidized by the tax-paying public" or "The tax payers are having to foot the bill for a private company"?
Those are ignorant statements. A tax break given to a corporation isn't existing money the government has already collected from taxpayers, it's some of the money those corporations have earned on their own. Money which they don't have to pay to the government. They earned it, and they own it.
That would be equivalent to saying that the general public has some right to a corporation's earnings which anyone can tell you, is socialism.
It boggles my mind why Dims keep saying that the rich in general need to be taxed more.
It's not like voters will be given more money if the government takes in more money. After all, they routinely run trillion dollar deficits. The government is going to spend what they want to spend when they want to spend it. None of it depends upon incoming tax revenue.