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If you really want to start from first principles, corporations may seem to be financial pass-through entities but serve as legal shields. Shareholders are not personally liable for externalities like environmental catastrophes or labor law violations. Elon Musk isn't subject to incarceration when someone is killed in an autopilot failure.

If you believe that corporations should also pass through legal liabilities, then sure it makes no sense to pay corporate taxes. But that's not the world we live in.

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LLCs are pass through entities but are limited liability