Thanks, Nathan, although this is something I'm trying to get my head around (having seen this in the Economist, too)... though we have higher rates, don't we actually effectively tax our corporations less because of all their deductions?

Thank you, thak you, thank you!!!

As a pro-market leftist, I appreciate this analysis that illustrates that the right-wingers view of markets is upside down: Capital does not employ labor, labor employs capital. The right wingers are correct that taxes discourage that which they tax, but then they claim to help employment by shifting taxes from capital to employment.

Further proof of this thesis: Bush's tax cuts and the current ecconomy. There were huge tax reductions on capital, little or no tax reductions on labor. Result: Profits are up, employment is stagnant or down. And no one can figgure out why.

(Okay, this post hoc ergo proctor hoc analysis is not PROOF, but it is certainly consistant with a plausible hypothosis.)

Who gives a shit what corporations pay? I go to work every day, and make my sure. Stop pissing and moaning for those lazy-asses who look to the Government for all the answers.

I have never gotten a job from a poor, government-dependent liberal. I always get them from those evil corporations.

By the way, Decnavda: You sound like something I once read in Das Kapital. let me ask you this: What socialist Euro-waste country has any chance of passing us economically. You already know the answer: NONE

Brian is a troll from Bangalore.

Um, Brian, no one is saying that corporations are necessarily evil, only that there are larger economic gains for middle and working class people when we have a progressive taxation structure.

Take your bullsh!t "commie liberal" straw man somewhere else.

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