Do corporations pay taxes?

[Moseley]

Or do they merely act as a go between for double taxation. The government taxes a company and they in turn charge more for the products that they sell.

Is the idea of "corporate taxes" is a laughable sham. Don't they just pass that cost on to the consumer?

Sounds logical doesn't it? So why don't we just obtain ALL of our federal and state taxes from taxing the businesses? They aren't really paying the taxes, the consumer is.


If this were true, we would not need any personal federal/state taxes. We could just tax the corporations.

The result: Those corporations making the biggest profits would pay more taxes, thru the consumers who purchased their goods and services. Those corporations that made the best profits are taxed the most, resulting in them having to charge more for their goods and services.

This would (should) result in the consumer shopping from those corporations making the smaller profits, who, since they are taxed less can charge less for their products, thus raising their profits (due to the larger market share)as the more profitable companies see a decline in sales until finally: all corporations selling the same goods/services would have approx the same amount of customers, as shopping for the less profitable corp would not be of benefit, since the difference in profits (and thus taxes) would not be large enough to allow one corp to charge that much less than the other for their goods and services.

Then there is the "cheap" t.v. compared to the "Top of the line T.v."
You have the couple who makes $35k a year, go to wal-mart and buy a $300.00 t.v., they don't pay much in taxes in that price tag. But the millionaire, who buys the top of the line t.v., he pays much more. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]
Hey! That sounds cool!

The consumer who buys the car with the heated leather seats and top of the line stereo and air conditioning etc. etc. would pay more taxes (hidden in the price tag) than they prudent, environmentally friendly consumer who bought a hybrid.

Rich couple has a 100k inground pool/deck installed in their backyard, they pay taxes! Hidden in the price tag of course. The poor families, who go to the community pool, or lakes, don't pay taxes. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] Freaking cool again.!

Sounds like a great plan to me!

In fact, it sounds like the fairest system imaginable!

We already do it with federal taxes on gasoline. A millionaire pays the same amount in taxes to drive 12000 miles a year as a family of four making 80k a year.

So, we just get all of our federal taxes from the corporations, who get the money from the consumer thru their price tag. Thus, those consumers who buy 100k Mercedes & Hummer's that get 12 MPG, pay more taxes than the guy who buys a Hybrid. Of course, that's the way it is now, but imagine if ALL OF THE FEDERAL/STATE TAXES were obtained that way.!!!

It's the perfect system!! Those consumers who were into buying material things and demanding the best quality of anything they bought; the fast cars, guzzling the gas and 20k sq ft homes consuming all the electricity would pay the bulk of the taxes.

The rich would revolt wouldn't they?

Of course they would!! That's why, once our Founding Fathers passed on, and their ideals were clouded, we ended up with a HUGE IRS Code, full of loopholes for the rich and famous.