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To: Alighieri who wrote (629907)	9/29/2011 3:57:39 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

Al, > So businesses should not be taxed at all? Is that what you are saying here? Of course not. But the whole idea of the social contract is that government governs at the consent of the governed. The factory owner, the laborer, the businessperson, they all pay taxes in exchange for services provided by the government. But those services do not give anyone the right to claim any of someone else's fruits of labor. Or return on investment. That's the thing about the factory owner that Warren is referring to. That factory owner already pays taxes for roads, educated labor, police and fire protection. But Warren isn't satisfied with that, or else she wouldn't act as if she's "allowing" the factory owner to "keep a big hunk" of profits. So yeah, businesses should indeed be taxed, but only in exchange for the services provided by government. Tenchusatsu