Regarding the corporatist economics of Mussolini's fascist regime..."In actual fact, it is the State, i.e. the taxpayer, who has become responsible to private enterprise. In Fascist Italy the State pays for the blunders of private enterprise. As long as business was good, profit remained to private initiative. When the depression came, the Government added the loss to the tax-payer's burden. Profit is private and individual. Loss is public and social."--Under the Axe of Fascism, by Gaetano Salvemini, p. 416 (1936).Salvemini goes on to discuss the bailouts, which were targeted to large corporations but not small businesses. All of this sounds familiar to everyone, I'm sure..."In December 1932 a Fascist financial expert, Signor Mazuchelli, estimated that more than 8.5 billion lire had been paid out by the Government from 1923 to 1932 in order to help depressed industries (Rivista Bancaria, December 15th, 1932, p.1,007). From December 1932 to 1935 the outlay must have doubled."--Under the Axe of Fascism, by Gaetano Salvemini (1936).The plays are being taken from various playbooks, but that doesn't make them equal; however, the common thread is authoritarianism/centralization of power.
I don't see how this is germane to the discussion of Exxon's taxes. If you want to equate a corporation to communism, argue away. I think it's a strawman.
Your original post was railing against companies not paying taxes on overseas profits. If they were breaking the law, the IRS would be all over them. If congress wants to tax the hell out of companies, they'll pack up and go elsewhere like Halliburton did. The gov can boycott these evil profit-seeking entities, but that will have a further deleterious effect on treasury income.
My simple point was - and I'll leave it at that - government is the problem. Government keeps trying to pick winners and losers, engineer society, and they've created a morass of laws and red tape that no human being can comprehend (except maybe Timmy Guietner).
If government would make taxes fair and simple, all responsible people and companies would be more prosperous and happy to comply. This tax system if FUBAR and you get what you design.