[steins]

So if a company is efficient and has to terminate people they will have to pay more taxes?

Smart businessmen (with smaller businesses) would just start a new company every year and move the profit from 1 to another. It isn't a very big accounting challenge to change which one of the companies you control shows a profit.

[ck2]

Yes if a company makes higher profits by eliminating workers then they should lose the savings from their taxes.

If they moved the profit and terminated the workers, that year they would still have to pay full taxes. The new company would not have people for a year so no credits - they also wouldn't have profits to pay taxes on either. There is no way to game the system, you cannot shuffle workers because you lose credits.

Why is this so complicated to appreciate? A large corporation's worth to society is not to ship jobs overseas but to create domestic jobs. How else do you encourage them to not ship jobs overseas and get slave labor for pennies?

[yummyfajitas]

Why should we encourage a corporation not to ship jobs overseas? Why do you intrinsically want to favor Priscilla over Poonam? Is a brown girl who speaks Marathi somehow less worthy of a job than a white girl who speaks English?

Personally I don't think so. But perhaps that's because to me, Poonam is a real girl, very short, who makes frowny faces in google chat and real life when I tease her. Maybe I'd think differently if Poonam was a faceless foreign devil.

(Note: The girl is real, the name is not.)

Also, you are simply wrong that a corporation's value is creating jobs. It isn't. A corporation's worth is the consumer surplus their products create. If my company helps a woman find a dress she values at $100 and she pays $80 for it, she gains a consumer surplus of $20. How much of that $20 we are responsible for is dependent on what her NBA would have been.

[ck2]

What if that woman is unable to get a job because all the jobs are shipped overseas and cannot buy a new dress at all?

What is that corporation's worth to society that it is not generating any domestic income and only extracting dollars from a society?

[yummyfajitas]

What if that woman is unable to get a job because all the jobs are shipped overseas and cannot buy a new dress at all?

Then she will lower the cost of her labor until her prices become competitive, and people will then choose to hire her.

What is that corporation's worth to society that it is not generating any domestic income and only extracting dollars from a society?

Corporate value to society = consumer surplus generated - cost of printing green pieces of paper

(This assumes the corporation takes delivery of green pieces of paper rather than electrons, in which case it's value is even higher.)

Also, you still dodged the question of why your white girl deserves this job more than my brown girl. Is my girl simply less of a human being than your girl?

[pmiller2]

Your "white girl vs brown girl" scenario is a pure straw man. It does not deserve to be answered.