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Subject: Re: Business taxation
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Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 11:46:25 EDT
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> A business tax is just another tool that Congress uses to convert a
> business into a vehicle through which the wealth that people supply is
> paid as tax.  It's just that Congress looks good, because it *appears*
> that they have shifted the tax burden away from people, and it makes
> businesses look bad because their prices go up, or wages go down, or
> unemployment goes up, or return on investment goes down.
> 
> Only people can pay taxes.
> 
> David Olson
 
The funny thing is, David, is that corporations are defined as
"persons" in the eyes of the law, despite the reality that they
obviously are no such thing.  Businesses provide the same strain
on the infrastructure supplied by the government as ordinary
people, if not a greater strain.  Thus businesses too strain
sewage treatment systems, cause pollution, increase traffic for
trucks and business traffic not to mention commuter traffic for
people coming and going to work, and so forth.
Given that businesses increase this load on the infrastructure why
should they be virtually exempt from paying taxes?
                        tim sevener  whuxn!orb
 
 "The Corporation is that fiction by which the government magically
  transforms bureaucracies of thousands of people into the legal
  entity of a "person""  tim sevener