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Re:Really rich people are suddenly paying quite a bit more i... by bhickey on Thursday December 31, 2015 @12:51AM (#10816404)
What Harry said.

At the end of the day money is going to land in someone's pocket. It'll be paid out as wages and dividends. A company will spend it on equipment, vendors and consumables. When money is retained, it'll get priced into shares and will get taxed (albeit indirectly) once a shareholder realizes a gain.

Corporations are really good at playing a tax minimization shell game. Big corporations are especially good. This leads to all sorts of nonsense like laundering profits through Bermuda and parking capital outside of the US. In the end all we end up doing is compounding the advantages of size to the disadvantage of smaller corporations. Meanwhile there's the added inefficiency of churning money into tax lawyers.

My expectation is that revenues would increase if we set the corporate tax rate to zero and reallocated the burden to personal taxes.

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