Why not raise taxes and reform entitlements? Speaking of taxes, why not just force the corporations to pay up?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/bu...ates.html?_r=1
No one is certain how much creative accounting costs the federal government in lost revenue, but most estimates say it easily exceeds $50 billion a year. Targeted tax preferences, which Congress created to intentionally benefit specific companies or industries, cost an estimated $100 billion more a year.
Why do corporate taxes look like this anyway?

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