[majika]

You make a good case.

However, I think it's important to acknowledge that corporate taxes are useful for providing an incentive for corporations to do something a certain way. That is, they can avoid the tax if they change their behaviour. (see: equal-opportunities employment, regional commercialisation incentives, emissions control, recycling, etc)

[njharman]

Greed is the most powerful force in the world. If you tie regulation to money, it will be exploited and corrupted. It also shifts accountability from the individual violators to "the corporation". Instead enforce criminal laws against people. Doing the "right thing" doesn't deserve reward. Doing the "wrong thing" does deserve punishment.

[majika]

You want to criminalise failure to recycle, or failure to provide a work environment that's unreceptive to disabled persons? How's that going to work?

At what point does pollution or energy usage become criminal?

[njharman]

> At what point does pollution or energy usage become criminal?

At the point it harms society as a whole.

[Jach]

"There is no heaven, but if you do bad you are going to hell."

[SkyMarshal]

Corporate taxes also incentivize corporations to outsource or relocate operations overseas, and disincentivize them from repatriating profits made overseas.

I would be willing to consider giving up the ability of the government to micromanage corporate behavior in return for recapitalization of the US manufacturing base and repatriation of profits.