Yes corporate tax rates in the U.S are high on paper or the nominal rates however most corporations only pay a fraction of the rates and in fact many pay zero in income taxes and many get more from the Govt than they pay. The same with most middle class folks especially homeowners. They don't pay the nominal rates either.

We have these discussions periodically. If you get Govt out of the charity business you can just have the system that Mexico has or India has where you live in cardboard houses and beg on the street or like Nigeria has where every morning they patrol the streets of Lagos and collect the dead bodies from the night before so the well heeled don't have to see it.

Every service provided has folks who want to game it. They just indicted 300 folks on medicaid fraud and most are MDs or supply places, none are poor folks. Does that mean all MDs are crooks. Also like others have said rich corporations steal way more than some low classer using his card to buy beer but no one on the right ever talks about that. Instead they gloss over it with some excuse like "at least they provide jobs".

In the end a society is judged on how it treats those who can't make it on their own.