“We’re not a tax dodger. We pay our share and then some.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook took aim at the critics in a recent interview with the Washington Post, saying the company would gladly repatriate the massive amount of money it has sitting overseas, but not until it’s taxed at a “fair” rate.

Under the current rules, he says, Apple AAPL, +3.03% would take a hit of about 40% for bringing those assets back. So, for now, they stay parked.

“It is legal to do. It is the current tax law. It’s not a matter of being patriotic or not patriotic. It doesn’t go that the more you pay, the more patriotic you are,” he said in the wide-ranging discussion.

“We think it’s fine for us to pay more, because right now we’re paying nothing on that and we leave it over there,” Cook continued. “But we — like many, many other companies do — wait for the money to come back.”

He’s not wrong about that “many, many” part. The overall trend of U.S. multinationals stashing money abroad has exploded in recent years, doubling between 2008 and 2014 to more than $2 trillion.

For some perspective on the numbers, cost-estimating website HowMuch.net crunched the most recent data and created a telling interactive chart.

Topping the list is Apple AAPL, +3.03% , of course, and its massive $181.1 billion overseas stash, a $70 billion increase from the prior year. That total corresponds to $59.2 billion in deferred taxes, which is enough to cover more than two-thirds of the federal budget for education, training and employment, according to the 2014 numbers compiled by Citizens for Tax Justice last October.

Elsewhere, General Electric’s GE, -7.70% taxes could take care of almost 5% of our Social Security costs, while taxes from Microsoft MSFT, +1.07% , had it kept its money in the U.S., could have covered a fifth of all federal spending on veteran benefits.

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According to estimates, the prevalence of offshore tax havens causes the U.S. to lose out on $90 billion in federal income taxes each year. That’s no small chunk.

This chart depicts the 30 companies among the Fortune 500 with the biggest holdings abroad. Click here for an interactive graphic that has a drop-down menu to reveal the proportion of a particular government budget that could be covered by each company’s deferred taxes.