I get your point. It’S just wrong. You are saying that theft should not be a legitimate tax deduction. The government, the retailer and the shopper all share the burden of theft, thought most directly the retailer. Your plan would relieve the government of its burden in lost taxes, THEREBY PROVIDING EVEN LESS INCENTIVE TO GOVERNMENT to prosecute thieves. This would only create even more food and retail deserts in poor neighborhoods, hurt the poorest shoppers the most. Why do you hate poor people?
“THEREBY PROVIDING EVEN LESS INCENTIVE TO GOVERNMENT to prosecute thieves.”
Now you’re getting outright foolish.
Your phantom reduction of “INCENTIVE TO GOVERNMENT to prosecute thieves” (they basically already don’t) would be more than offset by the REAL incentive of retailers to reduce theft.
The greater good would better be served here by having the private sector solve its own problems, rather than subsidizing an inefficient and disinterested government.
Why do you hate the private sector, and all people in general, and love Big Government, higher taxes, and the Police State?