Post Amvcfzxiwl02CJchxA by specktator_@kafeneio.social
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(DIR) Post #AmvcPnR3kmJOiGcReK by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-10-12T11:12:10Z
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Corporations hate paying tax, so here’s my radical idea: let’s scrap taxes for corporations.That’s right, 0% tax.Who’s with me?Instead, we make all public services and utilities free at the point of consumption—that’s water, electricity, education, healthcare, etc.—and we make corporations pay for it, the percentage of the burden shared based on their annual revenue.We could call it, I don’t know, Compulsory Corporate Social Responsibility or something.Who’s still with me?:awesome:
(DIR) Post #Amvcfzxiwl02CJchxA by specktator_@kafeneio.social
2024-10-12T11:15:00Z
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@aral 😂
(DIR) Post #Amvea47klCRDHAc4rA by f4grx@chaos.social
2024-10-12T11:36:22Z
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@aral sounds great but thats not planning for bankruptcies. Maybe states have a role after all?
(DIR) Post #Amvf6JIVsfodbQ1Oeu by Sh41@androiddev.social
2024-10-12T11:42:12Z
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@aral you know that in silicon valley people were serious about making a crowdfunding style system for communities to fund local schools and other similar services?Yeah, they wanted to invent taxes without calling them taxes.
(DIR) Post #AmvjlmXGTmPPyJx5ou by gavinisdie@masto.ai
2024-10-12T12:34:31Z
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@aral good idea, but why not have them pay ALL the tax :troll:
(DIR) Post #Amvl8UCcuGXxjCgloO by PeterF@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T12:49:49Z
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@aral Or, floating this idea - have a local 'unemployment tax' whereby in each region all businesses are taxed in proportion to their profit and based on how many unemployed people are resident. Zero unemployment=zero unemployment tax.Cheaper to employ than pay the tax?
(DIR) Post #Amvmvm5nHUwNM8Yk7c by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-10-12T13:09:47Z
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@john ;)
(DIR) Post #AmvnUEUoBU7jIGgsfA by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-10-12T13:16:12Z
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@PeterF Interesting idea yet we shouldn’t have to work (especially for faceless corporations) in order to have our basic needs met. At least not in a modern, civilised society. Employment isn’t the goal.
(DIR) Post #Amvpgc9wEJpw4Fxc7U by ImakeIcecream@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T13:40:47Z
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@aral How bout this, let's just make them pay for cleaning up all the pollution they create.
(DIR) Post #AmvzeB6cqGqB7pt7Im by aral@mastodon.ar.al
2024-10-12T15:32:17Z
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@ImakeIcecream Why not both? :)(The sad truth being that certain corporations would not exist – and thus should not exist – if you factored in the cost of what we call “externalities” today.)
(DIR) Post #Amw0gfcQSzosIDVxvk by TheDailyBurble@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T15:44:08Z
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@aral It's a wild ideaI like it though.
(DIR) Post #Amw39qdzGBwne9xg1Y by Bluedepth@mastodon.social
2024-10-12T16:11:38Z
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@aral Make bankruptcies existential for the entire C-Suite. With great power comes great responsibility.
(DIR) Post #Amw8QtojDNmIBLw4Q4 by josyb@fosstodon.org
2024-10-12T17:10:51Z
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@aral a tax be any other name will still smell like tax ...
(DIR) Post #Amwlsn023KcpMGVr8q by WilliamHite@mastodon.social
2024-10-13T00:32:51Z
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@aral ooh! very clever
(DIR) Post #AmyHHsy4I75oqT07RA by ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org
2024-10-13T17:59:15Z
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@aral As pleasant as the proposal is... it's tax. You just renamed taxes.But you knew that, didn't you? 😉
(DIR) Post #An0xWPYsURX2NUkNns by RockyC@fosstodon.org
2024-10-15T01:02:09Z
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@aral Ah, yes! The classic “let’s rename the thing we don’t like to make it more palatable” scheme! Works EVERY time! 😜You aren’t “employees!” You are valuable TEAM MEMBERS! Who wants pizza‽