This reliance on public infrastructure is surely what President Barack Obama meant when he declared during his election campaign that entrepreneurial success is not possible without a strong government, telling business owners: "You didn't build that."
Obama's comment was directed at the mistaken belief that each individual is completely and solely responsible for his or her own success or failure. Republican politicians stubbornly block most attempts to increase taxes in the US. Indeed, America is in crisis precisely because it has held this belief in an individual's complete and sole responsibility for far too long.
I guess we need more taxes and more government spending aka investments. This is a German perspective where taxes are among the highest in the world.
Germany’s highest corporate tax rate is still lower than that of the USA (29.83% compared to 39.62%). (Germany lowered its average corporate tax rate back in 2006, too.) So lecturing on taxes is a bit hypocritical on der Spiegel’s part.