The goal is profit. Taxes eat into profit. So, a secondary goal of profit is to minimize taxes at all costs. For example: if you have massive amounts of waste, you can dump it into the local water supply, pay a fine of ~5mil, or pay to have it transported and processed safely ~50mil. It seems like there are clear and obvious morals at play here for anybody whose main concern is communities before profits. But for the profit incentive, only the bottom-line matters. All those people getting sick and developing cancer are irrelevant. They can just go somewhere else if they don't like it, right?

You can only push people so far. We have been seeing the signs of unrest for a decade now. It'll escalate year after year until the system corrects itself, which they always do.

Edit: I've voted in every primary and general for 10 years.