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How about they pay the maximum amount of taxes? How about we tax corporations at 50% again? How about that money is used to enrich public services, programs, infrastructure, education, and improve public spaces for everyone?
We need separation of government and corporations just like we have separation of church and state.
We don't have a "separation of church and state", there are literally 26 bishops in the house of lords!
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Sorry, I meant in the US. We are supposed to have separation of church and state, but it has really become necessary to have a “separation of corporations and state” as well. The corporations are so deeply involved in politics, writing laws, financing government elections, etc that they may as well BE their own branch of the government.
The fact that they hope and plan to dictate the terms of their own taxation through loopholes is a clear message, to which the only good answer I can imagine is to deprivatise them. They don't rule us, and we don't serve them. If they can't live with that basic fact, then they deserve little better than outlawry.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The report by EU Tax Observatory, part of the Paris School of Economics, examined how successful efforts to ensure individuals and companies pay their fair share have been over the past 10 years.
Quentin Parrinello, a senior policy adviser at the EU Tax Observatory, told the BBC that global billionaires "structure their wealth so it does not generate a lot of taxable income".
While the report commended an agreement in 2021 between 140 different countries to make sure companies pay at least 15% in corporation tax, it said that the plan had been "dramatically weakened" since then by a "growing list of loopholes".
Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning American economist, suggested in an introduction to the report that unfairness in taxation poses a risk to democracy.
This glaring tax disparity undermines the proper functioning of our democracy; it deepens inequality, weakens trust in our institutions, and erodes the social contract."
Mr Stiglitz said that addressing tax fairness and collecting revenues was "critical" for society, "as countries around the world face the challenges of climate change, pandemics and inequality, and as governments have to make essential investments in education, health, infrastructure and technology".
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