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To: Aevery_Freeman
It is actually MORE EVIL to tax businesses than individuals because the business can just pass the tax to the consumer (citizen blames the business, not the government).

Possible counter-arguments:

1. No, the business might not be able to pass that extra cost on to its customers - unless the company has a monopolistic position. Rather, the company will simply have to reduce the dividends it pays to its stockholders.

2. No, it is actually MORE EVIL to tax individual persons than businesses, because individual persons can just pass the tax on to the people to whom that person provides services and/or labor (i.e., to that person's employer - if he's an employee - or to that person's customers - if he's a service-provider).

3. No, not really more evil - rather, JUST as evil. An individual is really just a company of one. No distinction should be made. All should be equal before the law.

Regards,

55 posted on 11/14/2018 10:14:56 AM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: alexander_busek
Since the outcomes often differ between "passing on the costs", a level of evil may be imputed.

It seems the price of labor, for many, is more difficult pass on.

56 posted on 11/14/2018 11:18:12 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (An enemy invader does not become a citizen just because he breached the ramparts!)
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