Sounds confusing, doesn’t it. The cry around this country to “get those dastardly corporations – they are the cause of all our troubles” is so misplaced that it is almost like saying don’t put prisoners in prisons, because prisons are unsafe because there are too many dangerous people in prison.
Have I now cleared all this up? Okay it is simple, even if Senators Obama (now President) and (now Secretary of State) Clinton appear to not get it. Corporations factor in the income tax rate into their cost of sales and thus the price they set on what you buy at the point of sale. So, go ahead and tax the living day lights out of these corporations, they just collect their income tax for the government from you. There is one hiccup with this plan. These corporations are unable to incorporate their income tax into the price on sales overseas or in Canada and Mexico.
Senators Obama (now President) and (now Secretary) Clinton, please pay attention here as this is important and you act like you have never heard this before. When you tax a corporation and it cannot pass on that tax it either cannot survive internationally or it adapts by closing plants in the United States and opening these plants in another country. Are you still listening? When they do this, they create jobs in other nations and terminate jobs in the United States. This is called free enterprise. We could try to regulate corporations and force them to keep the jobs in the United States, but then they will not make any money and the investment capital will move to a company in another country and not here. It is like squeezing a balloon. Squeeze one end and it gets bigger on the other end – squeeze too hard and it breaks.
Our tax code and the fact that we tax our corporations at the second highest rate internationally may have something to do with out trade deficits and the loss of good paying jobs in this country. So yes, when we tax a corporation they bill us for the tax through domestic sales or sell us merchandise made in another country where the bulk of the profit is taxed at the other country’s favorable rate and the taxes go to the other country.
Senator (now President) Obama has a socialist solution for this conundrum. Instead of lowering taxes on domestic corporations so they can manufacture in the United States and create good paying jobs. These are jobs that make you more financially viable, jobs that make our economy healthier, and jobs that help us export to other nations. Senator Obama’s solution is to support the Patriot Employer Act. This act is right out of the socialist play book – we all know that the socialist economic system is failing all over the world. It is the second worst economic system, on how people benefit, only when compared to communism.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Peter Merrill whom they refer to as “…an international tax expert at PriceWaterhouseCoopers…” as saying “…Apparently Mr. Obama believes that by making U.S. Companies less profitable and less competitive world-wide, they will somehow be able to create more jobs in America.” http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120407121574294919-lMyQjAxMDI4MDI0ODAyNzgxWj.html
Honestly, they must have taught international economics at either Columbia or Harvard when Senator (now President) Obama attended. If he knows better and is sending us down the wrong path just to get elected, then he does not deserve to be President. If he does not know better, then he does not deserve to be President. The same should apply to Senator (now Secretary) Clinton. The solution, Senators Obama and Clinton, is to help these corporations become as competitive as we possibly can and then turn them loose on the world. This will create the right kind of jobs for this nation – we will not have to settle for jobs where you must learn the phrase – Do you want fries with that?
Senator (now President) Obama, drop your support of the misnamed Patriot Employment Act which is a form of reverse protectionism – it protects the world from us – and lower or eliminate corporate taxes. Yes, we all will personally pay more income tax which will be offset by lower prices for goods, since the tax will no longer be included in the price. This will stimulate domestic production of all kinds of goods and improve our standard of living by allowing us to hold better jobs. Aren’t you and Senator (now Secretary) Clinton about jobs?
Barack Obama is an eloquent Illinois attorney seeking to parlay his congressional experience into the Presidency. Abraham Lincoln once was an eloquent Illinois attorney seeking to parlay his congressional experience into the Presidency. One very big difference between the two is that one of them saw corporate capitalism as key to the nation’s postwar prosperity and advancement.
Government is the problem not the solution.A Fair or Flat Tax coupled with
a sane energy policy is what we need.
I think they do know it but do not care. Now that Obama has been elected, you will see some insane tax increases to support his spending plans.
One thing most folks don’t understand is that the entity that is called the “corporation” does not pay taxes, own assets, or even hold wealth. At the end of the day, when a company has a profit, it is either re-invested or is paid to the shareholders. At that point, that is when a “corporation” pays taxes and since a corporation doesn’t have wealth it can’t pay taxes, only people.
But Mark, either President Obama does propose those “insane” increases, or else he breaks his word. Which is the lesser transgression of the commonweal?
Corporations do not pay taxes. Oh, yes, they do file tax returns, but the monies they send along with those returns are not “paid taxes.” They are the result of remitting the extra amount by which they raised prices. Example: Washington raises the corporate tax rate to 50%. Corporations will merely increase their pricing to cover the increase. Does anyone out there understand that “corporate pricing” of any product is a simple equation. Product cost=cost of raw materials plus cost of plant maintenance plus cost of labor plus cost of shipping plus taxes imposed plus X% profit plus whatever else the corporation can think of.
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S-Corps Do NOT pay taxes – where is this coming from?
Thank you Tom. I was referring to the big corporations, but you are right about S-Corps.