Plus, the idea of the government being a de facto shareholder sounds like some of the nastier governmental systems from the last hundred years.
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com>wrote: > Stop corporation tax entirely. > > Tax is NOT a cost, even though it's typically accounted as such. Tax is a > "distribution" just as dividends are, and you don't very often see > companies seeking to minimise dividends because they're cash leaving the > company that should be treated as a cost. Corporations should aim to > maximise all distributions, not just dividends, that's their entire reason > for existing. > > > However… That's not going to happen any time soon, there's far too much > vested interest on the part of share-holding executives to maximise their > own cut, at the cost of anything else. > > A cleaner solution would be to claim that the government are a de-facto > shareholder of ALL corporations, by virtue of their investment in > education, infrastructure, communications, etc. and should therefore be > considered to hold i.e. 5% stock of all companies in existence at dividend > payout time. > > This would then leave companies in a position of having to minimise their > dividend payouts in order to minimise the "cost", something that wouldn't > go down especially well with other shareholders. > > It would almost certainly never happen, of course. Political lobbying > would take care of that (p.s. we REALLY need an effective lobby group for > the 99%), but it's still a nice idea :) > > > > > On 16 December 2012 11:37, Joseph Ottinger <j...@enigmastation.com> wrote: > >> Even better, why doesn't mP lead the way in doing so - maybe the rest of >> us will be inspired. >> >> >> On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Fabrizio Giudici < >> fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 07:58:40 +0100, mP <miroslav.poko...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>> It's not an obligation, it's just common sense, which extends to >>>>> individuals as well. Why wouldn't you strive to pay as little tax as >>>>> possible while remaining within the law? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Its simply being a good citizen. >>>> >>> >>> So why don't we act as better citizen and pay our taxes twice? >>> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Joseph B. Ottinger http://enigmastation.com *Memento mori.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
