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You have a right to not help them, but you can’t actively destroy evidence. Do you think it would be fine to begin burning documents once the police comes to you office?
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America, the land of the free... the place where I could not even walk at night because the streets were full of homless people.
Just carry a gun. Self-defense is an absolute right unlike other places.
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Just carry a gun. Self-defense is an absolute right unlike other places.
Carrying weapons for self defense was a think people had to do around here in the Middle ages.
In America the people are responsible, not the government or their enlightened bureaucrats.
How about just get rid of double taxation in corporate taxes? Eventually, taxes will get paid via distributions or sale of stock by individuals.
You do know my income has already been taxed? Why am I paying double tax when buying alcohol? Why is my income taxed when the companies revenues were already taxed? There is no double taxation. Transactions are taxed, not money.
How about just get rid of double taxation in corporate taxes? Eventually, taxes will get paid via distributions or sale of stock by individuals.
Everything is double, triple, etc taxed. The corp->shareholder thing is an arbitrary point to focus on. Some amount of revenue must be raised. Suggest an alternative. Not taxing corp profits will result is less overall tax income (it wont be made up in shareholder taxes).
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Because corporate taxes are paid on profit (revenue-expenses). So as a company I can claim a lot of stuff as a expenses. Executive salaries? Anything left after that? Lemme quickly create a separate company in some low tax jurisdiction and pay them for marketing expenses, and suddenly I have no profits, and nothing to tax. Regular people can't do that. You also generally can't tax the revenue instead of profits (exce…
None of that is really a show stopper when talking about an overhaul of the tax system and what it targets. Speaking of taxing revenue instead of profits, that's another reason the current tax regime is so galling (at least speaking from a USian perspective). Individuals essentially are taxed on revenue and can't deduct things that would otherwise be straightforward deductions in a business context, as necessary and…