Interesting_Total_98 t1_iucmb6i wrote on October 30, 2022 at 9:00 AM

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

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.

GreedyNovel t1_iufy05t wrote on October 31, 2022 at 12:48 AM

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?