Aral Balkan
Corporations hate paying tax, so here’s my radical idea: let’s scrap taxes for corporations.
That’s right, 0% tax.
Who’s with me?
Instead, we make all public services and utilities free at the point of consumption—that’s water, electricity, education, healthcare, etc.—and we make corporations pay for it, the percentage of the burden shared based on their annual revenue.
We could call it, I don’t know, Compulsory Corporate Social Responsibility or something.
Who’s still with me?
:awesome:
Aral Balkan
@john ;)
John "Gozzy" Godsland
@aral Nice! It's not a tax because it's levied on revenue, not profit. 😉
peterF
@aral
Or, floating this idea - have a local 'unemployment tax' whereby in each region all businesses are taxed in proportion to their profit and based on how many unemployed people are resident.
Zero unemployment=zero unemployment tax.
Cheaper to employ than pay the tax?
Aral Balkan
@PeterF Interesting idea yet we shouldn’t have to work (especially for faceless corporations) in order to have our basic needs met. At least not in a modern, civilised society. Employment isn’t the goal.
Aral Balkan
@ImakeIcecream Why not both? :)
(The sad truth being that certain corporations would not exist – and thus should not exist – if you factored in the cost of what we call “externalities” today.)
ImakeIcecream
@aral How bout this, let's just make them pay for cleaning up all the pollution they create.
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