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Except the last tax holiday on corporations resulted in them reinvesting almost all of it into stock buy backs and dividends. The myth that lowering taxes on c
by bearjaws 9y ago
Except the last tax holiday on corporations resulted in them reinvesting almost all of it into stock buy backs and dividends.
The myth that lowering taxes on corporations results in economic growth needs to die.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/business/worldbusiness/24iht-24tax.13933715.html https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/business/worldbusiness/24...
"A 2007 academic study by Roy Clemons, then a graduate student at Texas A&M University, that was based on earlier data, found that the tax break did not stimulate investment in the United States economy and that repatriated money was often used for disallowed purposes, like stock repurchases."
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40178.pdf https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40178.pdf
"While empirical evidence
is clear that this provision resulted in a significant increase in repatriated earnings, empirical
evidence is unable to show a corresponding increase in domestic investment or employment"
- YokoZar 9y agoWhen you tax people directly, you recover money earned by people through corporate stock buy backs and dividends. Those are all taxable income.
- bearjaws 9y agoYes but the goal of the bill (and any time someone brings up reducing taxes on corporations really) was economic grow, which never happened. Also capital gains tax is unfair to lower income individuals. We can invest money and afford to wait a year to see gains (and the obscenely cheap 15% tax rate). Most individuals cannot even invest, yet alone let their money sit for a year.