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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (143546)	10/27/2008 8:58:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

It's been said Corp's pay taxes only if they want to. It may have been said, but it isn't true. Many consistently profitable corporations would love not to pay taxes, but they don't have a choice. Well in one sense it is true. They nominally have to pay taxes, but in effect they don't. People pay taxes as I pointed out before. Those people may be the shareholders, or the customers, or the employees or some combination, but wherever the main burden lies (some studies suggest its mostly on employees) the corporation passes it along.