Corporations don't pay taxes. They pass their taxes on to the customers in the form of higher prices so their customers pay the taxes without realizing it.
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Of course they do. And if corporate employees don’t have to pay income tax, their salary will be lower. It all evens out in the end.
The primary purpose of government is to protect its people from powerful entities who do not have the best interest of the people at heart. By definition, corporations do not have the best interest of the people at heart.
And of course you can argue that current governments do not have the people’s best interest at heart. But they’re supposed to.
Corporations are NOT supposed to have the people’s best interest at heart. They exist solely to make money, and they have a fiduciary duty to do so. Often, I dare say nearly always, they do so by taking advantage of the people, either via monopoly price gauging, or wage theft, or pollution, or any number of other things. This isn’t necessarily going to change, but taxes are a tool to curb behavior that damages the people.
I want a world where I don’t have to fill out my tax return every year, because my company has already paid all the taxes necessary. I also want to walk into a store and pay the exact listed price for an item so I don’t have to do 8% math on it in my head to decide whether I want it.
Right, i think it's simply a matter of perspective. Taxes would be an operational expense, it has to be balanced by some form of income, selling the product. IE: Passing the cost to the customer.
Taxation is theft btw.
this is why a lot of big L libertarians advocate a flat sales tax, because you see it
Bad idea. Sales tax is a REGRESSIVE tax. It harms the poor more than it harms the rich. Abolish sales tax. 100% corporate revenue tax.
taxation is theft
theft is a crime
abolish crime
Taxation can only (and it’s still a stretch) be considered theft if you are held against your will, including simply that you were born there and have no means to flee. As this is difficult to distinguish, I’m in favor of abolishing all personal income and sales tax.
Businesses CHOOSE (and go to great lengths) to be incorporated within a legal entity (or layers of legal entities: USA, California, San Francisco, etc) and therefore agree to be charged a cost of doing business in that jurisdiction. That tax is NOT theft.
taxation is theft
Corporations pay all kinds of taxes. It’s a cost of doing business in the USA. As it should be.
Fun fact: customers don’t pay sales tax, businesses do. It’s a massive scam that sales tax is added onto the purchase price to hide the cost from their customers. It makes customers side with businesses against raising BUSINESS taxes.