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Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by redis_mlc on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @08:17AM (#22604128)
> because they took every penny and reinvested it and lost money for a long time because of such heavy investment.

No, my understanding from press reporting is that the heavy reinvestment was to avoid taxes in the first place

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Re:What If Andrew Yang Was Right? by jnordwick on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @01:15PM (#22607280)
that's the same thing. we set up tax structures to encourage long term investment precisely because we hope companies will try to invest to avoid taxes.
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