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> You would have a company car, company vacation, company dinners, you can even make it company policy to pay for the employees children college education, etc...

Isn't this "economic growth"?

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I was referring to how you can't compare specific tax rates over large differences in time since behavior changes. Instead you need to look at tax burden through GDP and compliance costs.

But to answer the question, all that's doing is displacing economic "growth". Moving it from one hand to the other. Business instead of personal.

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