• jeffw@lemmy.worldOP
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    19 days ago

    “The corporate tax rate has a much bigger impact on individuals than it does on businesses,” Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who is in line to chair the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee if Republicans win control of the upper chamber, told The Washington Post. “Let me put it this way: Corporate taxes are paid by workers, by retirees and by consumers, so it has a huge impact on everybody in the United States.”

    Okay buddy. Trickle down economics…

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    19 days ago

    If they believed what they were saying(paid by individuals, retirees, employees), what’s their justification for not dealing with them directly? What are they trying to say the benefit is of helping a retiree indirectly via a corporate tax break?