Art Buchwald in the Washington Post has some fun regarding the very serious story that due to offshore tax-dodging, 60% of Fortune 500 companies did not pay a penny in tax last year. He includes the following Socratic exchange:

"But how can they call themselves good Americans?"

"Their stockholders consider them good Americans, and that's good enough for people who are only interested in the bottom line."

"Hold it. How can we fight a war in Iraq and other places if they refuse to finance it?"

"If President Bush wanted them to pay for it, he wouldn't have given them a tax cut."