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From: dlo@drutx.UUCP (OlsonDL)
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Subject: Re: Re: Business taxation
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Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 13:22:15 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.

Oh really?  Then what are they, aritchokes?

>Businesses provide the same strain
>on the infrastructure supplied by the government as ordinary
>people, if not a greater strain.

But, businesses *are* ordinary people.  Like managers, customers,
suppliers, employees, investors, ...

>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?

How does that change the fact that only people pay taxes?

>                        tim sevener  whuxn!orb

David Olson
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"Government is that fiction by which people believe they can live at
someone else's expense."  -- Frederic Bastiat