This is good. Increasing corporate taxes means they contribute more to society. They are taxed before they distribute money to shareholders in the form of dividends or buybacks. It encourages them to hire more employees or invest in new technologies.
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How does it encourage them to hire more employees?
Employee pay and other expenses back into the company are considered costs and lower their profits. They only pay taxes on profits so if a company reinvests 100% of its profits it can have a very low tax burden.
When companies re-invest money in their companies instead of paying taxes they build equity. Of course they need workers. That is how FDR made the US a super power almost overnight. The US was industrialized to the max. Then came along Reagan who allowed them to cash out and send jobs overseas.
To give a simpler answer, not all profit is income. let's say you own a small company and you earned 100k of profit in a year. If you want to take that 100k as income and pay yourself(the owner), you're going to get taxed pretty high. But instead you could really use a new work truck, so you buy a company truck that goes as a business expense and pay yourself the remaining 50k.
Companies have a lot of options in ways to spend their earnings without it having be taxed as income.
Can't wait for the Republicans to hold the Senate, block every part of this budget and have everyone blame Biden because politics are too complicated.
More like... Can't wait to continue watching this circus.
I love how we need studies to know that a corporations are greedy and giving them more money means they're just getting more money to give to their shareholdes, no one else 😂
I hate it too. Its obvious but having the hard facts proven over and over again is a method for beating it into the brains of the populace. Its good that they're doing these studies, its better when they're loud as fuck about the results each time. I'm sure there is plenty overlap between teaching adults and teaching children.
Maybe I'm cynical but I just don't think any amount of facts are going to change the fact that next quarter's earnings report needs to be higher than last quarter.
It's always worth it to have scientific data backing information that "everyone" already knows.
Doesn’t mark the end of shit as long as the GOP controls either chamber of congress or has the presidency.
That’s cool, though Republicans aren’t giving up on it anytime soon
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Instead, it’s an expression of the priorities the president promises to fight for, often coming on the heels of an agenda laid out in the State of the Union address.
By taxing extreme wealth and investing those revenues in social goods like education, housing, food and health care.
President Biden’s recently released federal budget plan follows that blueprint, putting the value of investing in American families and communities ahead of slashing taxes for the rich.
That’s a $388 billion boost compared to last year’s budget — and it all comes from fairer tax policies targeting wealthy individuals and large corporations.
The Biden budget proposal keeps funding apace with increased need and protects access to fresh fruits and vegetables in the program.
Similarly, the Biden budget would restore the expanded American Rescue Plan Earned IncomeTax Credit for low-income working adults without dependent children.
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Internationally, the US is the main party holding back improved taxation of corporations. In October 2021, the US struck an international deal to revamp global rules on corporate taxation, based on two pillars: getting corporations to pay tax in countries where they do business, and a global minimum corporate tax. Now the US looks set to renege, due to bipartisan opposition in Congress over US multinationals getting taxed overseas.
Even though the Biden administration spearheaded the original deal, they've been MIA getting it ratified. Understandably, other countries worry that the US intends to watch them raise taxes while doing nothing in return. To avoid getting backstabbed, some are looking to impose unilateral digital taxes. And the US has threatened these countries, calling the measures unfair discrimination against US companies.