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0 pointscamgunz2y ago0 comments

1. Companies only have money because of the work I and others do.

2. It doesn't follow that when companies have more money their workers get more. Evidence is: record profits concomitant with layoffs, corporate profits vs wages, etc etc.

3. Taxes fund a government that answers to me. Capital powers corporations that not only don't answer to me but likely want to exploit me.

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kazinator2y ago

The government does not answer to you; it answers to corporations and the rich.

That's why taxes are instigated where they are.

camgunzOP2y ago

If what you were saying were true, there would be no corporate tax, and probably no worker protections, no social safety net, no building safety standards, no regulatory apparatus, no antitrust, etc etc.

I like that stuff, and I'm pretty confident corporations wouldn't have done it themselves without a democratic government forcing them to.

There's a meaningful difference between democratic governments and corporations, and governments don't have to be perfect for this to be true.

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