Upvoting to support the idea that taxes as a concept aren't the problem, here. The problem is this obnoxious system of taxing things which likely have no value.
Wait, are hospitals taxpayer funded in America? If so, why do they charge my insurance such vast amounts of money for tiny services?
It sucks that giant multinational corporations can pay effectively zero taxes (or negative taxes thanks to rebate programs and such) and much of the population will support this simply because they don't like that a significant percentage of their income goes to taxes.
Instead of "let's have corporations pay a fair share and me pay less" the message ends up "taxes are bad, let's not have any taxes!" (ignoring the rather obvious issue that without any sort of public funding the country would literally fall apart).
That's not even remotely true. They may have zero or negative rate for some taxes, most often corporate income tax, but that's to be expected, when you have a rate of 35%(!). There are many other kinds of taxes, though, and the effective rate for any given corporation, or any sector, no matter how you slice the economy, is not going to be zero.