Well tbh the same could be said for the alternate. Because corps control some aspects of gov't, they control all of it?

Sorry @INNYGMATYK yes. Go for it. You can never have too much meats on pizza. I speak as an authority because NY

*whisper ; money controls govt? . .*

49% of all revenue for the government came from income tax, which represents 100% of the population of the US that pays taxes. But only the top 1% actually makes billions every year. So really, the statistic represents all the money paid in by the other 99% of the population. 49%! And yet, corporate taxes only paid in 7%!

Fegs

I feel like debating

Right. So govt needa to back the fuck off my paycheck
Taxation is theft and all that

Anyone got time for vc

lower taxes sounds really nice

tbh

@thedarkness05 yes! But corporations need to pay more!

Uhhh. . . thedoxtho

whoah whoah

I agree that corps need to pay their tax

Lower the income tax on the people, and tax the corporations who are actually making money!

1. Audit the FED

2. Scrap Income Tax

there - I said it - ok

but I don't think that we need to raise them, I think we need to cut the BS gov't systems that allow them to take stupid tax breaks

Why is @Foxhound paying the taxes he's paying when people like Jeff Bezos pay literally nothing?

Forgetting about how corporations throw huge funding behind whatever they want. Forgetting how companies like Monsanto operate as shadow entities in amongst themselves. Forgetting that repeatedly Corporations have shaped law and legal decisions in America and elsewhere. Forgetting the corporations repeatedly pull shadier shit than the government itself.

Reee

@AKAlexei No. They need to pay their fair share. As much as I hate taxes, they're needed in some small part. I propose a flat tax on everyone, equally. Corp, individual, politician. Fuck it, pols shouldn't make salary anyways.

@AKAlexei Because Bezos ""donates"" - see write off

Well 7% sure isn't their fair share.

Bezos HAS an amount he pays in taxes, he gets it all back in returns and breaks. How about we close those loopholes

7% is pathetic

@AKAlexei you know what, we actuall agree on that

@CatLoverKid yes, that too

increasing the tax rate isn't going to make them pay

How about we impale the rich on 20 foot tall spikes and call it a day?

no sir

Bullshit

@Foxhound >woodchipper

And don't gimme any of that "muh charitable capitalist" bullshit, that's a load of BS. The man could literally give away 150k of his money to every man, woman, and child in the country and still have a massive fortune. He makes Pablo Escobar look like a pauper

If they don't pay we seize their assets

it's the current year bruhv

he doesn't have that much money

@AKAlexei we don't live in a world where balance is a common mutual self interest 👀👀

also those assets aren't in liquidable form

Then you force them to be liquidated