It's a red herring. All state and local taxes combined as a cost of doing business for the average company in America comes to only 0.8 percent.

The company got notification from the IRS that Michael McDermott had been delinquent on his taxes and in a fairly routine procedure they asked the company to assist with garnishment of his wages, taking a percentage but obviously not all to pay off his back taxes,

Taxes matter to businesses. How a state taxes business is just as important as how much a state taxes businesses.

That's at least $4 million of streets per year; that's what we collect in taxes to improve the streets for Major Thoroughfare.

We've been working hard to get on the city's good side. We have our state business license, our taxes done, the vendor registration is done and the insurance is covered.

Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.