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“When wealthy businessmen/entrepreneurs declare that not paying their fair proportion of taxes helps them spend money on their neighborhood and supply jobs. Everybody ought to pay PERIOD.”
—u/medusamagpie
“Bezos is not making Amazon if poor individuals do not fund the constructing of roads and bridges for him to ship packages. Or if we did not construct the web for him to promote these packages. Or if we did not fund public schooling to coach an in a position workforce to construct the corporate for him. Or if we did not pay law enforcement officials to cease individuals from punking him out of his inheritance.
The wealthy profit disproportionately from what taxes fund, and they need to be made to pay disproportionately into the tax base after they get richer. To not ‘punish’ their success, however to allow it.”
—u/franky_emm
“‘In case you lower company taxes they may rent extra individuals.’ By no means works. Why rent extra individuals than you want?”
—u/Fashionable-Play-5085
“The rich are already spending what they need to spend. You solely want so many homes, automobiles and many others…Giving extra money to the rich within the type of tax cuts, subsidies and many others., solely causes a rise in wealth disparity, as we have seen occurring since about 1980.
Identical with companies. Huge companies are already at a degree of equilibrium concerning assembly the demand of their prospects. Giving extra money to huge companies is not going to trigger them to develop and/or improve compensation to their staff (lol, who ever fucking believed they’d try this?) They’re going to improve pay to the house owners/buyers/shareholders and many others. They’re going to manipulate the market to their benefit by way of inventory buybacks which have been made authorized proper across the time Reagan had begun implementing his ‘trickle down’ financial insurance policies. I am certain that was only a coincidence tho, proper?”
—u/postSpectral