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A lot more tax money goes to non-military parts of the government[0], like welfare and education. I'm not happy that Amazon doesn't pay its fair share. [0] htt

A lot more tax money goes to non-military parts of the government[0], like welfare and education. I'm not happy that Amazon doesn't pay its fair share. [0] https://www.usafacts.org/government-finances/spending https://www.usafacts.org/government-finances/spending

cjarrett 9y ago
Seems bizarre to only think taxes go into the Military Industrial Complex. I mean, sure they take their cut--but I'd like to think that our taxes go towards maintaining our civil society as well! Edit: Seems very much cutting off your nose to spite your face, if one is 'happy' a corporation isn't paying taxes
- quuquuquu 9y ago
  Per my other comment, the military's cut is 16% of 3.8 trillion. Energy, Environment, and Science take a combined 2%. Social Security and Medicare take a combined 60% (!), which are funded by entirely separate taxes (payroll taxes). Amazon still pays those. Trust me, you don't want a corporation paying income taxes. It just results in dead Iraqis and global surveillance.
quuquuquu 9y ago
Amazon can't escape paying Medicare and Social Security taxes. So, they are definitely paying into that, along with everyone else who pays payroll taxes. So, if you exclude those two things from the budget [0], you'll see that military expenses and interest on debt greatly outweigh education and NASA and etc. Now I personally think Amazon is a great source of good in this world, compared to Lockheed Martin or Halliburton [1]. So if those guys aren't paying anything in taxes, I am biased, they should be paying more, not Amazon. [0] https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_pie%2C__2015_enacted.png https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_... [1] they make missiles and weapons that kill people wholesale.
ams6110 9y ago
What's not fair? They are following the law.
- a_humean 9y ago
  Fairness (distributive) != Lawfulness Justice != Lawfulness - contested Justice ≈ Fairness - contested, but developed world's post-war political-economies are based upon this either explicitly or implicitly. A lately weakened norm (post-Thatcher/Reagan) that Amazon and others are breaking further. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/

cjarrett 9y ago

Seems bizarre to only think taxes go into the Military Industrial Complex. I mean, sure they take their cut--but I'd like to think that our taxes go towards maintaining our civil society as well! Edit: Seems very much cutting off your nose to spite your face, if one is 'happy' a corporation isn't paying taxes

quuquuquu 9y ago
Per my other comment, the military's cut is 16% of 3.8 trillion. Energy, Environment, and Science take a combined 2%. Social Security and Medicare take a combined 60% (!), which are funded by entirely separate taxes (payroll taxes). Amazon still pays those. Trust me, you don't want a corporation paying income taxes. It just results in dead Iraqis and global surveillance.

quuquuquu 9y ago

Amazon can't escape paying Medicare and Social Security taxes. So, they are definitely paying into that, along with everyone else who pays payroll taxes. So, if you exclude those two things from the budget [0], you'll see that military expenses and interest on debt greatly outweigh education and NASA and etc. Now I personally think Amazon is a great source of good in this world, compared to Lockheed Martin or Halliburton [1]. So if those guys aren't paying anything in taxes, I am biased, they should be paying more, not Amazon. [0] https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_pie%2C__2015_enacted.png https://media.nationalpriorities.org/uploads/total_spending_... [1] they make missiles and weapons that kill people wholesale.

ams6110 9y ago

What's not fair? They are following the law.

a_humean 9y ago
Fairness (distributive) != Lawfulness Justice != Lawfulness - contested Justice ≈ Fairness - contested, but developed world's post-war political-economies are based upon this either explicitly or implicitly. A lately weakened norm (post-Thatcher/Reagan) that Amazon and others are breaking further. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-virtue/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/