We hear corporate leaders (Gates, Brin, et al) lecture on social responsibility, yet they undercut the very structure of society by skirting tax laws.
How will we build universities, roads, public infrastructure without tax revenue?
Now the hacker in me says, knowing how corporations behave, how do we fix this? Do we have tax laws that encourage corps to pass along more earnings to share holders? Implement 0% corporate tax rate and then capture tax revenue out of individual capital gains and taxes on dividends?
It's one thing to rage about this, it's another to come up with a solution.
I would trust google to spend its money more efficiently than any government. People tend to talk about government as the only socially responsible charity in town and the money not forcibly taken is somehow wasted in some black hole.
http://www.google.com/intl/zh-CN/corporate/responsibility_en...
"Look at how great we are" type giving: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-brin-wojcicki-fo...
We hear corporate leaders (Gates, Brin, et al) lecture on social responsibility, yet they undercut the very structure of society by skirting tax laws.
How will we build universities, roads, public infrastructure without tax revenue?
Now the hacker in me says, knowing how corporations behave, how do we fix this? Do we have tax laws that encourage corps to pass along more earnings to share holders? Implement 0% corporate tax rate and then capture tax revenue out of individual capital gains and taxes on dividends?
It's one thing to rage about this, it's another to come up with a solution.