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Re:The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies by contagiousflow on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:26PM (#48765506)
> Corporate taxes don't work

What does this mean?

Re:The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies by anon7725 on Thursday July 02, 2026 @02:50PM (#48765763)
I am not the original commenter, but I interpret it to mean that large corporations can almost always arrange it so that they don't pay tax or don't pay their fair share of tax. 88 companies paid $0 tax on $105B in profit in 2025[0]

[0] https://itep.org/88-profitable-corporations-paid-zero-income...

Re:The US Government Is Now a Shareholder in 26 Companies by contagiousflow on Friday July 03, 2026 @10:53AM (#48775785)
I agree that corporate taxes are not working at this time for one specific country. But the claim of "corporate taxes don't work" is much more broad and not something I've seen specific evidence for. My understanding was that historically corporate taxes have been extremely effective, even if those taxes aren't paid the profits of a company are instead redirected as other investments.