[nemothekid]

>The single-100%-owner scenario seems like a meaningfully different case here.

It's not. The way public companies were designed to work, in theory, is the "owners" get a proportional slice of the profits of the company. That's what a dividend is. I simply described the simplest scenario - if it feels wrong to you, you should consider why that is so.

>But: no, I wouldn't lobby that I should be exempt from sales tax just because it's "double taxation."

I agree here, but in the case of the corporate tax, I think it should be eliminated because it just incentives companies to game the tax system and creates these awful headlines where "LARGE COMPANY PAID $0 IN TAXES" which is almost never accurate.