You're missing the point. I understand the pretext and boilerplate reasons given for why ordinary people pay lots of taxes but corporations don't. The deeper qu

You're missing the point. I understand the pretext and boilerplate reasons given for why ordinary people pay lots of taxes but corporations don't. The deeper question that I pose to you and everyone else defending the status quo is WHY. There is no natural law of taxation, no platonic ideal to strive for. Tax policy is what it is because people have made it this way. There have been many decisions made, and other decisions could just as well have been made. Ask yourself why all of those decisions have been made in favor of corporations and not ordinary people. >Because you don't employ people. From a taxation perspective it's much better to have companies running on quite low margins that allows them to keep existing. It's why some companies get subsidies so even though they are barely profitable, their employees, the voters, can stay happy. All* of Netflix's income comes from subscribers who are ordinary people. Ordinary people are the reason why Netflix exists. Why don't we subsidize ordinary people to ensure their happiness? *(or at least most, for this discussion at least, I'm not familiar with all of Netflix' income streams) > Netflix will have X engineers at +$300k/year paying taxes, injects money in the TV/movie industry with their productions and is overall a positive for the economy. Again, all of that money flows from ordinary people, Netflix is just the conduit. People inject money to the industry via Netflix. Point is, it's all a matter of perspective and line drawing, and every line is drawn so that large corporations benefit, not ordinary people. It's all choices that have been made, and all in favor of large corporations. > While I don't know where you live or your financial situation, there are probably a ton of benefits/tax credits that you do in fact get to incentivize a specific behaviour (think retirement account, tax-free saving accounts, etc...) But none take my overall personal tax liability down to 1.1%. There's an order of magnitude difference there. Show me one (well off, just as Netflix is) W2 employee who has ever legally reduced their tax liability down to 1.1%.