[VRW Conspirator]

Finally, McArdle and I both have argued that getting rid of the corporate income tax would have the happy effect of reforming how lobbyists function, because probably half of D.C. lobbying involves not appropriations or regulatory matters but the tax code.

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[Mr. K]

I like the corporate tax (better than the income tax, at least) because the dumb libtards think the evil rich corporations pay it.

They dont realize that it is passed along as ‘cost of goods sold” right to the consumer- which is everyone even down to the honey boo boo crowd.

[redgolum]

Corporations are legal persons. So that means they get the same rights and liabilities under the law as actual people do.

Now if you want to end the personal income tax I am in full support.

[GeronL]

National Review has become a big joke

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Where’s the “bring back American Jobs” guy when you need him? Eliminating the corporate tax would be the best economic thing we could do to get this country working again.

[ex-snook]

" It’s been a long time since the typical American worker received a raise in her real pay. In fact, average weekly earnings, exclusive of fringe benefits but adjusted for inflation, are 10 percent lower today than they were in 1966. "

Author should get real. This wasn't caused by Corporate tax and it won't be solved by no corporate tax. Some corporations pay no income tax but they still laid off Americans and hired in other lands.

When people are supported by business, they vote Republican. When they aren't, they vote for government support and for Democrats.

[zeestephen]

Complete elimination of the corporate income tax is brilliant economic policy, but very poor political policy.

An enormous educational effort will be needed first, for voters AND politicians, and it must be spread across at least 4 years.

If the GOP just suddenly begins to campaign on this idea, it will almost certainly have a destructive political impact, or, at best, no impact at all.

Reminds me of our former “Conservative” president GWBush.

After winning the 2004 election, he impulsively wandered around the country for 3 weeks proposing that Social Security be partially privatized.

Good idea?

Sure - but there was no planning, no preparation, no political strategy, and no follow through.

Perhaps he just did that to mollify Conservatives?

A few months later he was trying to shove the McCain-Bush Amnesty down our throats, followed by the Harriet Miers nomination, a mediocre center-left lawyer he wanted on the Supreme Court.

I'm wondering if this corporate tax idea is just something Boehner and McConnell dreamed up to pacify economic Conservatives before our leadership tries to shove Amnesty and ObamaCare down our throats?

[Toddsterpatriot]

It’s been a long time since the typical American worker received a raise in her real pay. In fact, average weekly earnings, exclusive of fringe benefits but adjusted for inflation, are 10 percent lower today than they were in 1966.

Why would you exclude fringe benefits?

Exclusive of the calories from "sugared soft-drinks", Americans consume 10% fewer calories than we did in 1966. LOL!