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Laws get written with a lot of help and influence from lobbyists who do sit at the companies.
by dontreact 5y ago
Laws get written with a lot of help and influence from lobbyists who do sit at the companies.
- slver 5y agoLet's get couple of things straight: 1. Politicians are responsible for the laws. 2. Companies are responsible for following the laws. If you have a beef with any of the above, address the right parties. How they interact and depend on each other is a fact, but also it's not relevant to the above two points. Everyone has a clear responsibility. Furthermore the phrase "dodged taxes" means "they structured their revenue so they paid less taxes than if they would structure it otherwise". Who the hell says you gotta structure your revenue in order to MAXIMIZE your taxes? Do you do that? If not, you also "dodge taxes" as far as the media is concerned.
- aweiland 5y agoALEC literally writes "model bills" written by industry and are submitted word-for-word by politicians.
- rhizome 5y ago>Who the hell says you gotta structure your revenue in order to MAXIMIZE your taxes? I don't think it's about rules ("gotta"), it's about ethics. I wouldn't say that maximizing taxes is anything, but the desire to minimize taxes is definitely anti-social.
- slver 5y agoSo everyone is antisocial then.
- dontreact 5y agoThis is a theoretical framework you are presenting but it does not reflect reality. The text of many bills is written by people working for corporations. A politician needs to get funding in order to be re-elected and have any meaningful ability to make a difference. In theory all the power for determining laws is supposed to lie in the hands of the politicians, but in practice a significant fraction of the power lies in the hands of corporations. So it doesn’t make sense to only look at part of the power structure that has set the system up this way.
- nvilcins 5y agoWhat about explicitly bringing up and fighting that mechanism in the first place?