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by asdfadsfgfdda 2052 days ago
How's this for an argument against corporate taxation: Corporations receive money from customers, and distribute to employees (salaries) and investors. It's just simple arithmetic. How does a tax on corporations impact these three stakeholders? It seems unlikely the burden falls entirely on investors. So should we burden these customers and employees with taxes? If the real goal is to tax the rich, why not tax investors? Also, corporations have shown they are most capable of avoiding taxation. How efficient is a tax on corporations when they can easily hire an army of tax lawyers and accountants? Would the world be a better place if those tax lawyers were doing something more productive?
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The goal isn't to tax the rich, it's to internalize the costs of running a functioning society where those corporations and its members can actually exist.