The kneejerk downvotes of this post make me ashamed of HN. > (also, the gross receipts tax is... pretty dumb) ... for manufacturers who aren't Boeing. It's t

The kneejerk downvotes of this post make me ashamed of HN. > (also, the gross receipts tax is... pretty dumb) ... for manufacturers who aren't Boeing. It's true though. Taxing revenue instead of profit is a ridiculous policy which punishes manufacturers and favors every other industry at their expense. Giving one company (Boeing) its own special preferential revenue tax rate [1] of $\epsilon$ percent is not a solution. [1] https://j7dfh9pbumnyhazfmcsfgm9m.apnews.com/article/37d21240880df9b2e17bdea7c689e25f https://j7dfh9pbumnyhazfmcsfgm9m.apnews.com/article/37d21240... [*] [*] (apparently AP news is trying real hard to make their links look like malware or something)