DmonSlyr, if you haven't noticed. No business EVER pays taxes, their customers always pay it for them in the cost of increased prices. This is a simple truism that folks who have no concept of economics just do not understand. Then they get bent out of shape over the price increase. Businesses are in business to make money. When they do not make money they fold and the jobs as well as taxes and increase in local economy goes away. It is simply impossible to tax either a person or business of any kind into prosperity. Hence the flight from high tax locations by industry into lower tax locations.