Pay less salary so you can pay your taxes? This isn't as complicated as y'all seem to want to make it.

Two people earning $100k each would pay $28k income taxes each, totaling $56k. Where did this $80k come from?

If you can't afford your taxes your business model was flawed to begin with. In the above example there is more than enough money for it to still be worth doing.

You pay them less money so you can afford your taxes, like literally everyone else.

Still plenty left to pay their business taxes.