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   Radical-Knight said, 3 months ago

   Ouch!…That hurt!
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   jfb 1129 said, 3 months ago

   The president should read today’s strip.
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   ronald rini said, 3 months ago

   If they hwve employees they pay taxes they pay unemployment state and federal,fica tax. And the employees pay taxes. the corp payes taxes and then what left over they pay in dividend and the people pay taxes on them And you are right they just pass the tax on and like in france when they taxed the rich most of them moved to denmark where the taxes were cheaper
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   bpullin said, 3 months ago

   The government creates nothing. Provides nothing. It does not create wealth. It destroys wealth and “redistributes” wealth. The government has no business trying to pick winners in industry. Or trying to save bloated inefficient businesses. In a free market, there are always companies waiting for those companies to fail so they can take the next step and grow. Like when old, sick trees in a forest finally die and fall. The younger trees get more sunlight and food and become the next large trees.

   Lower taxes create more tax revenue. I’ll wait for the libs to wrap their heads around that. By lowering taxes, more money is put in the hands of businesses and individuals. Businesses will invest, grow and hire more people. Thus, creating more tax revenue via income taxes. People with more money will either spend the money, creating more tax income via sales taxes. Or they will start their own businesses. Or pay down their debt, which will increase their disposable income.
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   no1scouse said, 3 months ago

   @bpullin

   Finally, someone posting a comment that makes sense!
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   John Robillard said, 3 months ago

   Except, none of that is true. Sweden chose a right wing government in 2006. They promised to put more people to work, stop the abuse of the welfare system and do it without changing the way Sweden works.They lowered taxes for the well to do, stopped taxing capital, sold off railroads,hospitals, schools and on and on the whole rightist litany (oddly enough, they are called ‘liberals’ in Sweden). And they sold it all cheaply, so their buddies could turn around and sell it on to venture capital companies with headquarters in Isle of Man, for up to 10 times the amount paid to ‘we the people’. They put a limit on sick leave, to ‘weed out the cheaters’ since shown to cost a vanishingly small amount (now rising as ‘private carers’ have learned how to game the system).
   So the people who are too sick to work,still have to report to the unemployment office for jobs that no longer exist. I’m just glad my wife died of her cancer before she was put through that mill.
   So now the university campus in my town is closing. Sweden’s school system has falling results in international comparisons. Private schools are essentially selling high marks to compete. Private care companies close down clinics that don’t make enough money, private pharmacies don’t carry certain medicines that are too cheap to make money on. Private train companies buy trains that don’t run in the snow. Essential maintenance on roads and rails is done on the cheap by private firms with damaging and even deadly results. It was any interesting experiment but now, even the 2/3 of the population that ‘won’ economically are seeing the results. The 1/3 who didn’t are sinking deeper into relative poverty. And worse, just like the last time we had a right wing government, we have a racist party in the parliament, one that has roots in the neo-nazi movements from the last decade of the 20th century. I don’t buy your reasoning. But I do understand that you consider government to be something other than you. Odd thoughts in a democracy.
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   Dave Richard said, 3 months ago

   Okay, so let me get this straight… Higher taxes cause prices to go up. So people will have less money to buy higher priced stuff. Great “stimulus” idea there, Barry-O!
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   Johnathon Handy said, 3 months ago

   You tell them John and I’m sorry about your loss. But what I find strange in today’s litany of responses, is that no one commented on the corporations as people zinger at the end.
   I guess that’s because both you and your corrupt parties, want to forget all about that corrupt legislation.
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   Dave Richard said, 3 months ago

   John, I’m sorry for your situation, but American Free Market economics is far different than Swedish Neo-Nazism. Here, it works and would work better if our delightful governmet would stop spending beyond its means.
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    echoraven said, 3 months ago

    another great comic! Scott you should get a raise!
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    Ian Rey said, 3 months ago

    Oh, B.S. Products cost as much as the market will pay, not a nickel more. Taxes are a part of production cost, but if you think production cost has anything but a tiny relationship to price, you don’t understand basic economics. Taxes come out of profits, and only if the market will bear it can they be passed on to consumers. Corporate profits are the cause of the stagnation of the economy – we have a lack of circulation due to clotting in the fatty tissues.
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    icky mudd said, 3 months ago

    @Dave Richard

    if YOU repeat it enough,everyone will believe it[the statement],it is still NOT true but ppl believe.[faith],not reality. baahhh.
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    Dave Richard said, 3 months ago

    I find it funny that libs are always whining about “corporate greed” until their own 401k loses value or they lose their job.
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    catzilla23 said, 3 months ago

    I think the corporations as people idea came out of a SCOTUS decision to allow a corporation to be sued; only people can be sued, ergo corporations must be considered people. I am relying on my faulty memory here so, corrections are appreciated.
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    Penny Robinson Fan Club said, 3 months ago

    @catzilla23

    You are largely correct, and despite the recent derision of the idea, the notion of the corporation as a legal person is quite old and established in the law.
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