[cuban leaf]

My personal opinion is that only human beings should be taxed.

[repentant_pundit]

Santorum's plan to zero out the corporate income tax for manufacturers

Santorum is right, and needs to go further right.

Income tax punishes earnings, both personal and corporate.

The U.S. should tax retail sales, not income.

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[Brookhaven]

Businesses don’t pay taxes. They are either passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices, or passed on to the business’s owners in the form of lower profits.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I like Santorum’s plan.

America First.

For once.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Rational Thought]

Maybe it's me who doesn't understand economics.

The “service-oriented” economy has been a bust while a manufacturing based economy worked for years. Yet, this author maintains that manufacturing is better being overseas, and lowering the corporate tax rate wouldn't gain any positive results.p>

As far as raising the child tax deduction, this author has completely missed the basis of Santorum’s point of the family.

Either I'm very wrong in my education and beliefs, or this author is very wrong. Or, more likely, this is just another attempt at a hit piece.

[DManA]

It is a tactical mistake for republicans to bring up tax reform in this election. Unless we get the spending under control, like right NOW, the tax issue will be moot.

These tax tinkering proposals are just distractions.

[Redcloak]

Corporate taxes should be zero since corporations don’t really pay those tax bills; we do. No company eats its taxes. The tax bill is passed on to the consumer in the form of higher prices. If beef producers get hit with a tax, they pass that cost on to McDonald’s, who passes it along to you when you buy a cheeseburger.

[throwback]

The WSJ has recently been saying that some manufacturing is coming back on its own. Wages are increasing in China. The cost of shipping and the complexities of the logistics involved of producing on the other side of the world are reducing the advantages of places like China. Throw in technology theft, lack of quality control, and producing over there is becoming a wash. Personally, I’d rather spend more for something that’s built well, and that I only have to buy once. For example, I bought some speaker stands a few years ago that were all metal except for a few plastic parts at key points. Well, once those parts broke, I pitched them all. Worthless. Most of what’s made in China is like that. Makes a buck for the moment.

[CainConservative]

The answer is still Huck’s 2008 Fair Tax plan which could have been eased in with Cain’s 999.

Think, folks.

http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2791979/posts

[The Pack Knight]

Good article. The other problem with Santorum's proposal is this: How do you determine what is manufacturing?

Think that's a simple question? Then answer this one:

Which of the following, if any, is a "manufacturing" business?

1. An integrated auto manufacturer.
2. An auto manufacturer that assembles cars from parts bought from China.
3. An auto dealer who buys cars without headlights, buys the headlights separately, installs them on site, and sells the cars.
4. An engineering consulting firm that designs cars.
5. A fast food restaurant.
6. A fast food restaurant's supplier.
7. A caterer.
8. A meatpacker.
9. A corn farmer.
10. A beef cattleman.
11. A dairy farmer.
12. A dog breeder.
13. A guy who makes cabinets by hand.
14. A toilet paper factory.
15. A software company.
16. A CD printing company.
17. A software company that owns its own CD presses and sells its software on CD-ROMs.
18. A movie studio.
19. A coal mine.
20. An oil driller.
21. An oilfield services company.
22. An oil refiner.
23. A homebuilder.
24. A prefabricated home manufacturer.
25. A mobile home manufacturer.

Then if you can answer that, then answer this: How is this not arbitrarily picking winners and losers in the economy and, if it is, when did it become okay for conservatives to do that? Also, why are the businesses for which you said "Yes" better for America than the businesses for which you said "No"? Why should the latter businesses have to pick up the slack for the former?

I'd like to see Santorum answer these questions. I'd like it even more if he rethought this nonsense and started acting like a conservative on this issue, because I generally like the guy and would love to support him.