1.18.2009

Cut corporate taxes to zero

Leave the New Deal in the History Books - Cut corporate taxes to zero and create real jobs.

Excerpt:

The quickest way to strengthen the credit system and begin the end of this crisis is to get money into the economy for true job creation, and not into government work programs. The way to do this is to slash taxes. The U.S. corporate tax rate, currently the highest in the world, should be cut to 0% (corporate income would still be taxed, of course, when distributed to shareholders as dividends). The capital-gains tax should be cut further.

The positive impact on corporate-credit markets, the stock market, the attractiveness of the U.S. to foreign investors, and the willingness to take business risk and create new jobs would be immediate. Capital-gains tax collections would rise. Capital flows would be in the hands of those who are driven to build businesses and permanent jobs efficiently instead of pushing that capital through a government pipeline with endless amounts of friction. If the U.S. is to lead the international economic community out of this crisis, this is the place to start.


Comment: Won't happen because it would be very politically unpopular. The populace does not understand that Corporate taxes just get hidden in every product or service we buy! Corporate taxes just encourage tax havens!

1 comment:

  1. There is just an extremely radical difference between conservatives and many Democrats. In the Star Tribune there have been editorials bemoaning the fact that they were "fooled" by Obama because he actually wants to give tax breaks and not tax corporations to death as fast as they thought he would. To me that is utterly amazing.

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