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- From: bud@kentrox.uucp (Bud Couch)
- Subject: Re: Ignorance - Was Re: VOTE, BABY, VOTE!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov14.222155.3602@kentrox.uucp>
- Organization: ADC Kentrox, Portland OR
- References: <1992Nov12.081725.12946@RedBrick.COM> <lTC=T5-@engin.umich.edu> <BxMJG5.K41@slipknot.rain.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 22:21:55 GMT
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- In article <BxMJG5.K41@slipknot.rain.com> robert@slipknot.rain.com.UUCP (Robert Reed) writes:
- >In article <lTC=T5-@engin.umich.edu> jwh@citi.umich.edu writes:
- >|
- >|They shouldn't, because corporations shouldn't be paying taxes in
- >|the first place. Corporations don't pay taxes, people pay taxes.
- >|A corporate tax is a bad tax because it isn't easy to determine
- >|who is actually paying the tax. It could be customers, in the form
- >|of higher prices, it could be workers, because of fewer job
- >|opportunities, it could be investors, in the form of lower dividends,
- >|or some combination.
- >
- >Fine. You figure out a way to prevent corporate trustees from shifting their
- >wealth to corporate assets (the limos, cars, boats, houses, etc.) of which they
- >are the direct beneficiaries, thus avoiding the tax on income that they would
- >otherwise need to purchase these luxuries, then at least I might begin to
- >consider the worth of your suggestion.
-
- I agree that far too much (read: just about any) corporate resources go to
- enhance the personal comfort of those at the top of the food chain, but
- considering that *every one* of the "bennies" that you enumerated above is
- a deductible expense in corporate tax terms, it's really not much of an
- argument against the elimination of corporate income taxes.
-
- What you are really arguing for is the taxation, at the personal income tax
- level, of the value of those benefits and perquisites. I agree. I'd be perfectly
- willing to pay taxes on, say, my health insurance, as long as I was assured that
- Lee Iacooca, et al, were paying taxes on that Lear (or even the differential
- between coach and first class airfare).
- --
- Bud Couch - ADC/Kentrox | That which does not kill me makes me strong. |
- If my employer only knew... | -Nietzsche |
- standard BS applies | ... but why risk it? - me |
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