| Thank you for your comment, Kliment. I am currently trying to see my error in thinking and fix it. > currently severely undertaxed Is it because companies such as Amazon are good at avoiding taxes? > they come from corporate wealth and income Hmm... I think this is what I don't really understand. Aren't corporations owned by a few people? So at the end the owners are paying the taxes? Can companies exist without owners (people)? (They change, I know, but can they exist without people?) I am probably to fixated on people, and perhaps I need to see companies as an own entity. > taxes on things we don't want like carbon emissions and other pollution Okay, so somebody and a "company" is also a somebody here, needs to pay for that? (So it is the owner at the end?) > direct wealth generation from nation-level investments (sovereign funds, resource funds) Okay, that makes sense. A stock is bought and sold by people, and its value increases and decreases depending on the decisions of people. However, you are right, the government owns that stock. So it belongs to all of us. Okay, so my question essentially boils down to: Why is the owner of a company like Jeff Bezos irrelevant here? I can see this for the sovereign funds, resource funds part. However, I have trouble with the CEO part. What am I missing here? My understanding of government and taxes is wrong, perhaps. That's why I cannot see it, probably. |