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The circle of life (lemmy.ml)
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[+] -28 points 2 months ago (7 children)

You can't increase taxes on companies. They'll leave the country.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Oh no! What if they took all their fucking datacenters and their pollution and their buying all RAM and their pulling all electricity out of the grid with them?

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  • [–] -3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What on god's green Earth makes you think they would?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    If they don't contribute their share to taxes, why would I as a citizen want them?

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  • [–] -2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Do have what they already give.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What, the 0 dollars the billionaire pay?

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I thought you meant the companies.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Same statement. They don't pay corporate tax either.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    They absolutely do. They don't pay enough but they don't pay nothing either.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    If they're not paying enough, why are we subsidising them? Why are they still benifical?

    Do you think if Walmart had to pay all of the food stamp costs of their employees, do you think Walmart would dissapear and replaced by nothing?

    I also encourage you to look up how much federal tax Amazon pays

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Rules like forcing companies to pay for food stamp costs for employees are definitely a better solution than trying to increase their taxes.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think you understand what a century tax is. Because thats what that is.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I definitely don't know what a century tax is and can't find anything on Google. Care to elaborate?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry auto correct got the best ofe there. Just what a tax is.

    Its just a charge levied by the government. You think taxes are only income taxes, but thats just one type of tax.

    In the same way tarrifs are also taxes, so would be making an employer pay for govermenet benifit, would also be a tax.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Yes but taxes can be subverted by changing the registered address of the company. Can't say the same about food stamps.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Too late, already happened. It's the reason why Ireland is the home for such notable Irish tech companies as Google, MSFT, Amazon, Meta, and others.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Those are American companies

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