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by kelnos 1425 days ago
How would slashing corporate taxes fix inflation? Corporate taxation encourages companies to reinvest into their own businesses: hiring more people, increased capex, etc. Cutting taxes just causes companies to either hoard cash, or return capital to shareholders through dividends or stock buybacks. Neither of these things helps the economy, or helps the average person; it's just wealth transfer from all taxpayers, to elites.

Check out what airlines did in the last half of the last decade. Check out what kinds of companies benefited most from the COVID-related handouts, and see what they did with that money.