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GreedyNovel t1_iubgtuf wrote

Reply to comment by Interesting_Total_98 in Shell paid zero windfall tax in UK despite record global profits by hugglenugget

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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