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Re:Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes... by riku_iki on Thursday October 22, 2020 @01:54PM (#24860975)
> I see that as an incentive to hide the profits by investing in the future.

Can it be also an incentive to work less, since most of the results of your hard work will be taken from you in form of taxes, or you would need to 'hide the profits' potentially forever?

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Re:Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes... by coliveira on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:03PM (#24861104)
That would be true if the owner of the business was doing most of the work. But in a large corporation the workers are doing the brunt of the work, so it makes no difference for the shareholders.
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Re:Media Owned by Wealthy Are Quick to Tell You Wealth Taxes... by riku_iki on Thursday October 22, 2020 @02:55PM (#24861883)
Author of the comment I replied to identified himself as "business owner", probably not an owner of "large corporation".
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