Since corporations are now officially people, can we finally force them to pay their taxes?

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"Most U.S. and foreign corporations doing business in the United States avoid paying any federal income taxes, despite trillions of dollars worth of sales..."

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1249465620080812

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1. no nt

[niyad]

2. let's see--scotus just handed them a blank check to buy the entire political system--pay taxes?

I don't think so.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. There is an argument to be made that since we are giving corporations rights like people have,

they should also be forced to have the responsibilities that the rest of the people of this country have.
Paying taxes is among them...

and actually since we are more limited in what we can donate to politicians, the corporate limits should go down, not up.

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4. Because if we don't force them, it's representation without taxation.

[Maru Kitteh]

6. Who's going to implement that? The politicians they buy? The Supremes? Santa Claus?

[NoSheep]

5. That's quaint. WHAT taxes? The corporation does not pay taxes unless it makes a profit, right? BUT

PROFITS are invested back into the corporation, largely in the form of salaries, in the cases we are concerned about. Amazing isn't it? Capitalism. Sucks, doesn't it?

[Duer 157099]

7. ...and put them in jail when they break the law?

And how about we level the playing field and give them a finite life span, say 100 years, but only if those years are engaged in "healthy" living?

Lots of possibilities