> So any taxation is justified?
A corp will raise prices to whatever level the market will bear. Why shouldn't a society do the same with taxes?
A corp will raise prices to whatever level the market will bear. Why shouldn't a society do the same with taxes?
A corp exists in a competitive market and can rarely raise prices to "whatever level the market will bear". If I don't like their prices, I use their competitor.
What competitor does my mandatory government and it's confiscatory tax agency have? What alternative do I have but to hand over half my work to them to be frittered away on foreign wars and grants for indolence and incompetence?
Isn't that exactly what VAT tax is for?
>And where does your assessment comes from? Just guess?
An educated guess that I am strongly confident in, to the point of willing to bet most of my savings on it. And I am not the kind of person who would usually bet any money on anything at all. My most risky money bet so far is putting a portion of my paycheck in 401k.
And yes, this makes it very hard for new businesses to enter the market as they do not have the resources necessary to do tax optimization.
Edit: I don't work for Amazon, though my brother does. I also don't work at a company that has much of a stake in this fight.
Inter-country competition helps to keep them honest, and corporations get to choose the luxury of where they operate from and do business out of.
There's value in competition, because it's about the closest we've been able to get to evolution. The issue comes about when competition is lopsided - I can understand the complaint here from the French, but I don't care at all for their solution.