I thought this too, but it does appear that most economists believe that you should have no/very low corporate taxes. You should tax things you want to discoura

I thought this too, but it does appear that most economists believe that you should have no/very low corporate taxes. You should tax things you want to discourage, and you don't want to discourage business investment. However, like everything else in our country -- what's superficially a good idea gets cut to pieces by private interests and it ends up benefiting them. In a perfect world a corporate tax cut would be offset by hefty consumption taxes for the rich, and estate taxes. But that of course did not happen, and will not happen in a republican-controlled government.