From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jul 22 2005 - 22:15:23 BST
> msh 7-21-05:
> Oh, I can understand some stuff. The fact that a large number of
> people work for corporations is the result of corporate dominance of
> our society. It's this very dominance that's being criticized.
> Corporations are legal instruments designed to, among other things,
> prevent public scrutiny of business operations as well as to shield
> owners from liability for the negative effects of corporate business
> activity. I'm not suggesting that honest business activity has no
> place in a moral society; I'm saying that the corporate business
> model, with it's emphasis on profit-maximization and near-zero public
> accountability, is a threat to society and should be dismantled.
Let the record show that msh wants to dismantle corporations that provide
jobs.
ph
> Nor do you seem to grasp that ultimately all corporate taxes are paid by
> individuals because prices set for goods and services include provision for
> corporate tax liabilities.
>
> msh 7-21-05:
> I understand this, too. All the more reason to demand public
> oversight of internal business decisions, such as price
> determination; and to demand that business owners be personally
> responsible for any negative effects to society that stem from their
> externalization of costs, such as the downsizing or elimination of
> health plans, massive layoffs, and passing their tax burden along to
> consumers through price increases and any number of other tax
> loopholes; and to place limits on the accumulation of private wealth and,
> therefore, the power that always accompanies it.
Let the record show that msh is in favor of lowering taxes that
individuals ultimately pay though his methods requiring an expanded
bureaucracy will only serve to increase the tax burden.
Platt
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