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Re:U.S.A., Land of Limitations? by tracker1 on Monday August 10, 2015 @06:12AM (#10033638)
I'd really love to see reforms that limit corporatist protections, subsidies, and un/under utilized assets owned by companies. Companies are emphatically not people, and should not be treated as such legally.. they are constructs to allow group ownership, and reduce liability as such. We've lost sight of this, and extended it to such a point that corporations literally have more rights than people, while we (as a society/government) work to prevent natural deaths of large companies and protect them at too many turns.

I think that if we started by backtracking on a lot of IP based protections, and changed the tax structure so that B2B transactions are taxed, actual investment over gambling could be a lot better. That's just me. We, as a nation and our government no longer legislate to ensure proper competition is allowed to happen and subsidize too much, and too often.

Poverty isn't a problem we can spend/indebt our way out of, we can only reduce some of the ways that the income gap has expanded out of control... Raising taxes isn't the solution, reducing loopholes, subsidies and deductions is. As would be making capital gains taxes line up closer to income taxes, with exemptions for directly inherited physical assets.

But, that's just my take on it... instead of spend at the bottom, cut from the top.

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