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Amori_A_Splooge t1_iu19r5m wrote

Reply to comment by DepletedMitochondria in Shell paid zero windfall tax in UK despite record global profits by hugglenugget

And who is this global entity that is going to go around and collect everyone's global taxes?

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Interesting_Total_98 t1_iu1v4tg wrote

Countries individually implementing taxation counts as a global solution, so your reply is pointless.

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Amori_A_Splooge t1_iu22kve wrote

Ah so it just continues to happen as it currently does. Got it. Thanks.

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Interesting_Total_98 t1_iu2c26z wrote

You missed the point. They'd like to see individual countries tax corporations more.

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GreedyNovel t1_iubgtuf wrote

Why? For example, Amazon used revenue to build a very effective logistics network the likes of which were never seen before. Successful companies do societally useful things.

Governments use revenue to bomb people who live somewhere else, or create propaganda, or whatever else serves the needs of the political leaders. It isn't always used for "the people", not by a long shot.

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Interesting_Total_98 t1_iucmb6i wrote

Government spending mostly benefits its citizens, such as building the roads that companies to use to supply their operations. The money spent on bombs is a fraction of the budget.

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GreedyNovel t1_iufy05t wrote

Corporations pay lots of tax money too. If you pick a specific corporation in a specific year, sure it's easy to find one that doesn't that year but over any given span of 5-10 years they pay up and their lawyers remind Congress about that loudly and often.

I sometimes find it funny how people accuse corporations of buying Senators to do their bidding, but then claim those same corporations aren't paying taxes. Aren't both activities ... taxes to buy influence?

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hawklost t1_iu272x5 wrote

So problem solved. As each country taxes the profits from their company as they see fit. So companies are being taxed for global profits.

EDIT: oh look, someone who posts a response and immediately blocks a person, how mature

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