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> The CEO of Wal-Mart has, at any given time, thousands of delivery trucks on the roads, trucks that contribute to traffic congestion, increase the risk of accidents, cause potholes, and spit out harmful emissions into the atmosphere.

Doesn't the USA have corporate tax? Shouldn't corporate tax (and things such as fuel levies and business levies) pay for the cost of roads?

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For the purposes of the CBO report, corporate taxes are counted towards the total tax burden on households, proportionate to their capital holdings, based on interest, dividend, capital gains and rent income.

Interesting, but rather silly, since a lot of it flows right through to the prices of their products.

Corporate taxes (which are levied on profits) are most naturally passed through to the owners of that corporation. (Basically, they are taxing undeclared dividends.)

Taxes that a corporation pays in the course of doing business (fuel, payroll, etc) are presumably NOT allocated in this fashion.

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