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I agree with you on #2, but not on #1.

I think the correct reform of the corporate income tax is to abolish the "bazillion highly specific loopholes." If it was abolished entirely, I think you'd very quickly see corporations being set up and used purely to evade individual income tax, especially among the extremely wealthy.

That said, I do think it makes sense to not tax money at the corporate level that's remitted as dividends that would be taxed individually.



No one pays dividends these days anyway. It's all shifted to capital gains, to pumping the stock price rather than delivering profits.


If the tax treatment of dividends and capital gains changed, corporate practices would change to follow suit.




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