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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (434910)	11/14/2008 9:40:50 AM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574589

I guess you're referring to the sales tax. In fact, the sales tax isn't a good analogy, as all sales taxes are subject to exemptions for items purchased for resale, specifically to eliminate the multiple taxation of a single item. Let's get back to the point...even if one accepts that taxes on dividends paid by a company to its share holder are the burden of the corporate entity, you would, I believe, want to make sure it clear that only a small portion of these profits are passed on to shareholders as direct distributions, quite often none are, and financial gains by shareholders are more frequently recorded as capital gains, taxed at lower rates and the subject of extensive tax avoidance manipulation. You were suggesting that employees were somehow treated more harshly WRT business expenses, No...i was not passing any judgment on this...i was clarifying the point that employees are not afforded much latitude in the way business expenses. I cant remember the last time I claimed one. Al