Posted on 03/07/2009 7:10:42 AM PST by TheNewPundit
Today, the Tax Foundation started running a 30 second television ad and a 60 second radio ad in the Washington, D.C. market to educate Americans about the burden that American families bear from the corporate income tax.
The Tax Foundation will run the ads on six different cable television stations (News Channel 8, CNN, Headline News, MSNBC, CNBC and Fox News) and three different radio stations (WTOP, WMAL and 1580 Big Talk) in the Washington, D.C. market for the next two weeks (March 2-13). These ads are running as a part of the CompeteUSA project, a campaign which aims to raise the public's awareness of America's high business taxes and how those taxes are affecting our competitiveness, wages and living standards.
The ads are created by Craig Kirchoff of Alexandria, VA, a winner in the Tax Foundation's CompeteUSA YouTube Contest held last October. They show that "Sally" and her family are burdened with corporate income taxes through lower wages and higher prices at the store.
(Excerpt) Read more at taxfoundation.org ...
The dirty little secret that politicians - of all stripes - have been so successful in hiding from we-the-sheeple —
Businesses don’t *pay* taxes - businesses *collect* taxes, from thee ‘n me....
A href="http://www.fairtax.org">FairTax.org
Obama said he won’t raise our taxes a dime. He’ll raise them by a bunch of dimes and this is just one of the ways. When will the DUmmies ever figure it out?
Sarbanes-Oxley would be enough to drive me away along with environmental paperwork and the complicated tax codes.
In the US we have no such exemption as Corporate Taxes are levied at the Corporate level based on profit irrespective of whether profit is earned on Exports or on domestically sold production.
Just another disadvantage our Policy makers place in the path of American Business.
“businesses don’t pay taxes.” I get so tired of the DU attitude about businesses.
It won’t be long before Obama-lama-ding-dong institutes price controls telling businesses what they can charge for goods and services.
More proof that the jerk posing as President of the United States is purposely tanking the economy. Nobody could be this clueless on the economy and how to fix it.
Many here do not grasp that fact, everyone of those over paid CEO's are dinning on your dime.
No. I liked Reagan, but he wasn’t a god. Please send me a link with him saying that. The line I quoted stands on it’s own. Yes taxes get passed on to buyers, but businesses pay plenty and are not evil abusers of consumers.
Would you say that our tax code, environmental policies, and other government regulations such as OSHA, EEO, etc., are intended to destroy America? Personally, I think they are. Their negative impact is excused as “unintended consequences” but I think they are intended.
I scream that very remark at the tele each and every time some ALLEGED learned economist or academic moron lets some lib get away with the crap that business taxes need to go up.
Needless to say, I spend a lot of time screaming.
I had a recent discussion on this forum with a member who insisted that renters do not pay property taxes, I failed to convince him otherwise. It's the same concept as corporate taxes. Individuals do indeed pay them, just as renters pay property taxes. (I'm not a renter)
BTW, in addition to Tax impediments our method of funding Health Care also works against our Manufacturers. In Countries where the Gov’t picks up these costs their manufacturers don't have them as part of their cost base.
Therefore Toyota doesn't pay taxes of significant benefits on every vehicle they ship here while our exports to them are burdened with these costs.
In essence it amounts to huge subsidies by Foreign Gov’ts to their exporters.
And none of our brain dead Leaders ever talk about this disparity in foriegn trade agreements.
” Yes taxes get passed on to buyers, but businesses pay plenty and are not evil abusers of consumers.”
Two points...
First — where in my original post did I state that ‘businesses are evil abusers of consumers’??
Second - ‘taxes get passed on to buyers, but businesses pay plenty’ is contradictory on its face....
Businesses do not have one dime of taxable income until someone, somewhere, plonks his hard-earned cash down on the counter. Taxes are a ‘cost of doing business’, and are included - with a markup - in the price of goods and/or services.....
Yeah! Which is why those dirty rotten !%@$#&*’s should pay more taxes, cause they...oh, wait...never mind.
“over paid CEO’s”. Paraphrasing Obama now?
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