> Could you maybe tie it back to majority control? Then you get three corporations that each own a one third stake in all the things that constitute Alphabet a

> Could you maybe tie it back to majority control? Then you get three corporations that each own a one third stake in all the things that constitute Alphabet and a variety of investment instruments that allow anyone to buy shares in all three of them at the same time. Things like that wouldn't work if they had an actual individual majority shareholder, but the larger the company is the less likely that's the case. > The idea is that you wouldn't need to government to actively break up companies, they'd do it themselves (or get outcompeted). And then we're back to the original point -- business expenses are deductions so raising the tax rate actually gives them the incentive to spend money expanding rather than using it to pay dividends, so if anything it does the opposite of that.