Before the individual income tax forced individuals to pay taxes all taxes were paid by coroprations.

Corporations don't pay those taxes, their customers do. Those taxes are worse than an income tax because they are built into the price of products and you have no idea how much more you are paying because of them.

Sales tax is a flat tax which disproportionately affects the poor. Corporate taxes have pros and cons, but a flat tax is not the answer.

So, do you think the rich pay more for gas than the poor? Corporate taxes are a flat tax on the products those corporations produce. The only difference is that they are applied to all the products across the boar...

Before the individual income tax forced individuals to pay taxes all taxes were paid by coroprations.

Corporations don't pay those taxes, their customers do. Those taxes are worse than an income tax because they are built into the price of products and you have no idea how much more you are paying because of them.

Sales tax is a flat tax which disproportionately affects the poor. Corporate taxes have pros and cons, but a flat tax is not the answer.

So, do you think the rich pay more for gas than the poor? Corporate taxes are a flat tax on the products those corporations produce. The only difference is that they are applied to all the products across the board, and you can't see how much they are. Sales taxes don't have to be flat, but corporate taxes let corporations decide who carries their tax burden when they set the price of their products.

That's true, n2sooner. It used to be that nothing was hidden. When only corporations paid taxes all that corporate expense was passed down and the market settled into that framework. The way it is now corporations are taxed, they pass the expense down. The middle man is taxed, they pass the expense down. Individuals are taxed and they still are hit with the adjustments that corporations and middlemen make in the economics of their accounting. The opening of the floodgates of taxation has led to Congress assuming they have the power to tax every individual asset or action. It is such a tangled web. Besides, the income tax is constitutionally suspect. We survived most of our history without i...

That's true, n2sooner. It used to be that nothing was hidden. When only corporations paid taxes all that corporate expense was passed down and the market settled into that framework. The way it is now corporations are taxed, they pass the expense down. The middle man is taxed, they pass the expense down. Individuals are taxed and they still are hit with the adjustments that corporations and middlemen make in the economics of their accounting. The opening of the floodgates of taxation has led to Congress assuming they have the power to tax every individual asset or action. It is such a tangled web. Besides, the income tax is constitutionally suspect. We survived most of our history without it. Now that we have it, there is more political manipulation, unscrupulous dealings, government waste and corporate power aligned with government. It was a bad move overall.