[vinceguidry]

Except if you don't tax profits, you're forced to tax consumption instead, forcing consumers to bear a larger than fair share of the tax burden.

It's really hard to properly tax corporations because they have the resources and the motivation to really fight back. But we shouldn't stop trying.

[netcan]

Sure, but this is more rhetoric than practicality. Whether you tax profits, salaries or consumption, you are taking it away from people. Often the same people.