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>> in addition to eliminating crony-capitalism.

Not quite. Graft can be had through regulatory chicanery, credits, eminent domain, etc.


7 posted on 09/04/2011 1:32:52 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here's your damn Change!)
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To: Gene Eric
This is true, but eliminating corporate taxes has some other nice secondary effects. Streamlining the tax code invariably means streamlining the IRS, whether by design or not. It frees up a huge amount of essentially wasted billions in tax prepration, lobbying, lawyers fees, accountants fees, and makes irrelevant huge tracts of frozen bureaucratic tundra.

Corruption, as you correctly point out, will always find a way. It's just nice that we'll get a lot of fringe benefits from making corruption relocate.

9 posted on 09/04/2011 1:38:12 AM PDT by Steel Wolf ("Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master." - Gaius Sallustius Crispus)
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>>...Not quite. Graft can be had through regulatory chicanery, credits, eminent domain, etc...<<

Well then, it’s certainly a start - isn’t it?

Seems to me it’s a *huge* shot across the bow that should rock the beltway boat, however slight. Is the US Congress likely to legislate away corporate taxes just because someone (president, candidate, pundit, poll) says so? I highly doubt any tax-code change that massive could be done within the span of the next Presidential term.

But to get this country back on track, I personally think a bold leader needs to step forward and start challenging the abominations that have become status-quo over the past 50+ years. Throwing down such a jarring challenge to the current behemoth tax-code to get the conversation/debate started is not a bad idea in my opinion.

In the ensuing debate, there may be valid points made pro/con concerning the idea of flat-out abolishing corp taxes, but anyone who thinks it’s a *bad* idea then would be expected to either defend the current tax-code -or- suggest a viable alternative to have a credible argument.

It’s starting to get interesting. Whether she actually runs or not, I do admire Palin for how she can get folks talking. I wish there were at least two other candidates that generated as much water-cooler and friends & family conversations colored with a “brighter days ahead” vibe as Palin does. Most other candidates (at least so far) just tend to get the “better than Obama” vibe.

I’ll admit it’s unusual, considering she’s not even a candidate...


33 posted on 09/04/2011 7:14:46 AM PDT by jaydee770
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