ThickStemz
Well-Known Member
They're not mutually exclusive.What happened to the "corporate taxes get pushed onto the customer" argument?
Now it's the "but we have to be competitive in the global economy!" argument?
What does it matter if US corporations are competitive if none of the benefits for being competitive are dispersed among the US population? Why in the world should I care if Walmart can pay their executives exceedingly higher salaries because of lower corporate taxes if their employees aren't even earning a living wage?
It seems like you're saying we have to give corporations these low tax rates because it'll benefit the American people, and if we don't, prices will rise.. Well, ever since we started progressively lowering the corporate tax rates, average CEO compensation has skyrocketed by 325%, average hourly earnings have stagnated, the tax burden placed on individuals has risen by more than 30% since the 1960s, and prices still rise..
So forgive me, but what the fuck else is it going to take for you to realize that no, lower corporate tax rates are not good for the American people? What can you point to and conclude that lower corporate tax rates have been a success?
I never said just customers. I said individuals.
I also said there were so many layers to this your simplistic straw man of my position was erroneous.
I see what you're saying now. You keyed off on me saying they could go way way up and it would be fine becuase it would effect them all.
This statement was made with passing those costs on to the consumers and individuals in mind. That's the reason if we were in a closed system you could tax the fuck out of corporations and it wouldn't hurt the corp. That cost gets passed to the customer and others, and no outside corp with lower taxes could out compete them.