Of course, there's actually a much deeper and more important connection. The huge cash hoards of Apple, Google, Microsoft and other big multinational corporations are a direct outgrowth of clever tax strategies they use to shift profits to low-tax countries and avoid US taxes.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/27/us-microsoft-tax-i...
Corporate tax payments as a percentage of total tax revenues are low and historically low compared to the size of the economy. http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Tax-VOX/2011/0209/Corporat...
http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxfacts/displayafact.cfm?Doc...