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To: Wonder Warthog
Did you actually READ what I wrote??

Yes I did. You wrote that there is/are no taxes on American business. That statement is ludicrous. Of course there are taxes on American business: Federal, State, FUTA, SUTA, Employee taxes, property taxes....to name only a few.

Taxes have to be paid out of the revenue the business generates. If the taxes are "high", the profits are lower and the business is hampered from expansion, hiring, paying better wages, improving prioduct by R&D, improving distribution, etc.

So where do we disagree? Businesses pay taxes. If you mean businesses do NOT pay taxes where is all that money going that they take from me every quarter? I call it taxes. What do you call it?

47 posted on 07/11/2011 4:33:32 PM PDT by Rapscallion
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To: Rapscallion
"So where do we disagree? Businesses pay taxes. If you mean businesses do NOT pay taxes where is all that money going that they take from me every quarter? I call it taxes. What do you call it?"

It goes to government, of course, and what I call it is "tax collection". ALL taxes, whether directly collected by government taxing authorities, or indirectly by businesses, are paid by individuals. Any "tax" on business gets passed on to the business's customers in one form or another, either as higher prices, or lower levels of service.

The idea that business actually pay taxes is one of the biggest successful lies of the "progressives".

48 posted on 07/11/2011 5:56:14 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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