>but neither has anyone in this thread made a case for them inevitably going up. Anyone unaware of the very tired routine by now has no business commenting on

>but neither has anyone in this thread made a case for them inevitably going up. Anyone unaware of the very tired routine by now has no business commenting on the role of private subsidy in public taxation. Not only have you missed that historically, taxes of all kinds as a category overwhelmingly rise, you have forgotten that taxes circulate back to taxpayers in the form of services and infrastructure. You are proposing diverting some chunk of this circulation into Cayman Island bank accounts while you are at the same time pretending there might be no net cost to this diversion for those who depend upon these services that they alone pay for but that all benefit from, not the least of which being beneficiaries such as tax deadbeats like Amazon. You believe in magic, or at least you believe in the proposals of intensely wealthy persons seeking subsidy. Same difference. Subsidizing intensely wealthy employers in an acknowledged race to the bottom may or may not immediately force non-subsidized taxpayers to pay x% more in tax or in now-privatized fees, but sure as shit these non-subsidized persons are forced to receive back less and less for what they pay. That is where and why the crumbling happens, you see: the rich asserting a quasi-divine right to get paid while bridges collapse, social fabric is torn and government is blamed. Enough already. We see through this grift by now.