You make several unsupported or undefined assumptions below:
1. Modern business depends on modern government. Please define these
terms? The limited liability corporation dates to at least the 16th
century, possibly before. When do you date the beginnings of "modern
government"? What is a "Modern business"?
2. "It is Government that provides police protections and other
infrastructure required by all of us."
This statement seems to imply that all infrastructure that is
required comes from government. That is demonstrably no so to
anyone who has used a telephone or been served by a volunteer fire
company for instance. In any event, we must be careful not to
conflate required with desired.
3. If corporations pay less, then the rest of us must pay for it, or
subsidize them.
All corporate income comes from the customer base (read "the rest of
us"), we pay all taxes, directly or indirectly. Corporations have two
choices over the long term - pass on all costs to their customers, and
taxation is a cost, or loose money until the capital investment is
gone and then cease business.
Matthew
On Aug 20, 2008, at 2:21 PM, Snyder, Mark (IT CIV) wrote:
Modern business (corporations, etc.) is possible because of modern
government. It is Government that provides police protections and
other
infrastructure required by all of us. The only way for all of us to
have these is to pay for them. If corporations pay less, then the
rest
of us must pay for it, or subsidize them.
I am not willing to cover the tax obligations of others, especially
large corporations.
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