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by tehjoker 2054 days ago
How on Earth would that help? Maybe printing money, taxing the unearthly wealth of the largest corporations that currently pay $0 or negative taxes (e.g. Amazon, Netflix, many others), and giving a federal job guarantee or some mix thereof would be better?

Adding a tax on specific behaviors will just cause these $0 paying corporations to shuffle various activities around to come out paying $0 or less.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/03/why-amazon-paid-no-federal-i...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/04/amazon-had-to-pay-federal-in... ($162 million tax bill after 2 years of $0)

https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/02/13/netflix-tax-law/