Great to see someone gets it! I have been explaining this for years to whomever will listen.
I used to have coffee with some retired FDR Democrats who would holler for Bill Clinton to stick it heavily to the greedy oil companies. I asked, 'From where do the oil companies get their money?' '...Uh...' 'They get it from you when you pump fuel into your vehicle.'
It should be obvious... A (govt) shell game! Failure of the education system I suppose.
Well, that's good Bob. Then they won't mind at all if we hike the corporate rate back up to 35%. No? Oh.
And what did corporations do when they were flush with cash from not having to pay these phantom taxes?
Stock buy backs, lots of them.
As you know, some corporations pay much less than the now 21% rate. Some pay less than 10%, or even less.