I agree Robbie that Gov't spending must be reduced. We spend WAY too much on Defense, useless services, etc. But still, corporations SHOULD pay their taxes. Any "good American" should, right?
Which leads me to this:
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Originally Posted by sperbonzo
uhhhhh.... you do understand that taxes are always treated by a business as an expense, a cost, (if you are running it right), and therefore passed on to the customer in the price of the product or service right? So if you raise taxes on corporations then the price of their products must go up in order to cover this added cost, and therefore the average citizen is paying them. If you raise taxes on businesses so much that their pricing is no longer competitive, then they simply move, or go out of business. When that happens a country goes in the shitter.
I don't get how a grown up person in business doesn't understand that basic fact....
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First, spoken like a true Republican tool who swallows all the propaganda like a good little citizen. I realize taxes are an 'expense" that's "passed on" to the consumer....but as a businessman with a calculater I'm sure you could crunch the numbers to see that a giant corporation would have to raise their prices maybe .000003% to cover the additional cost of taxes.
But your basic premise is wrong anyway. I charge $34.95 per membership, and have to pay corporate and personal taxes from that income. So I should "pass that along" to my customers and charge them what, $44.95? Ridiculous.
When the ONLY VALUE is HOW MUCH MONEY CAN I/THE CORPORATION MAKE then any of these rational, reasonable, "fair" arguments fall on deaf ears. GREED trumps everything. FUCK everyone, fuck taxes, fuck YOU - pay me.
Pathetic. And what a wonderful soceity to live in where no one gives a fuck about anyone else! Oh joy.