• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I got a good idea. How about mega corps actually start paying taxes?

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      Taxing corps is the same as taxing people, there’s no difference other than whos books it ends up on. Companies are all owned by people (eventually)

      If you want to tax wealthy people who hold the stocks, tax them directly.

      Let the companies generate value free from taxes on their operation. Of course we should charge them taxes for things like land and resource use, and force them to meet human, environmental, and safety standards.

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        I like this better. It means fully worker owned corporations get to keep more of their earnings because it’s more spread out. Discourages wealth concentration.

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      I got a good idea. How about mega corps actually start paying taxes?

      Please read my comment before responding to me in the future. My point is increased taxation on large earnings up to an incredibly high cap is a better solution than UBI.

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          Napkin math will demonstrate to you why UBI is not sustainable on scale, even with an increase in taxes.