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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (24741)	10/1/2012 6:01:35 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I don't see how employees are double taxed at all -- they receive their money it is taxed and that's that. Shareholders receive their money and it's taxed and that's that, no? Bear in mind that I know nothing about corporate income taxes. Given that perspective, it makes sense on a superficial level that employees get income from corporations and shareholders get income from corporations. Those corporations pay income tax. So when either the shareholder or the employee pays income tax on that income, that could be construed as a double tax on each of them. It's not obvious to me why it would be a double tax for one and not the other. Edit: I see that Tim just explained the difference.