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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Really? You believe in double and triple taxation? Guess who is paying the bill once you force the corporations to pay full property tax? Hint: it won't come out of their profit. If they even decide to stick around.
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Sorry, but property tax is a very small part of these corporations' expenses (even if they paid for their fair share). It's huge for the local communities, however. And why should LOCAL citizens suffer for a nationwide corporation's benefit?
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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
I grew up in a failed socialistic experiment, it crashed horribly in the end. You draw your own conclusions and see if you want to go that route. Unfortunately we cannot discuss this any further.
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How is requiring a corporation to pay the same property tax rate EVERYONE ELSE PAYS socialism? I would think that the corporations who are on corporate welfare and aren't paying their fair share of the local property taxes would be the socialists, not the other way around. Socialists are those who enjoy benefits they didn't earn ... who DON'T pay property taxes (yet still uses community services) in this case? Why does everyone knee-jerk assume that corporations should be exempt from what others have to pay? Makes no sense at all. In free enterprise you EARN your way, you don't expect preferential treatment and no property tax (or other types of corporate welfare).