... The reality is that 97% of all tax revenue is collected from the top 50% of the tax paying population in America.Dersmikner wrote:
The corporation argument doesn't work.
1. Yes corporations are in it for the profit of the owners. To assume they owe some debt to anyone other than the owners and those with whom they've made agreements is false.
2. Employees work under employment agreements. Those agreements include things like health insurance or 401k plans or severance packages. Even if you work for McDonald's you go to work under the auspices of an employment agreement. Chances are you signed an employee handbook which detailed the terms under which you were employed. If you don't like the deal they offer in the agreement, work somewhere else. If you're willing to accept the terms of their offer in exchange for your labor, you take the job. If they fail to live up to their end of the bargain by raiding your 401k or cutting off your health insurance, you are owed restitution and a court of law will see to that.
3. A corporation's responsibilities to those employees with whom they've made agreements in no way correlates to any potential responsibilities between two unrelated parties. I never agreed to work for or with the welfare recipient down the street. Your company agreed when it hired you to fulfill certain promises regarding pay, benefits, etc. They owe you that. I don't owe the asshole down the street as much as a wave.
Anyone can claim that they don't want their taxes going to some social program, but the fact is - there is a good chance you are already not the one contributing to a social program in any meaningful or significant way. Someone else is - and they are not complaining about a responsibility that they would gladly pay.
P.S. I am not an employee. I am a business owner, an owner of a corporate entity.
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