Reply #104: If a corporation wants to avail itself [View All]

[Tsiyu]

of the services/infrastructure of a "free" society, it is obligated to pay its share of the cost of running that society.

In the US, a corporation might use any of the following:

$the court system (clerks, judges, buildings; Think: The Supreme Court. Who gets to pay for their salaries and health care and offices?)

$transportation (FAA, DOT, roads, interstates, bridges, state troopers;)

$inspectors (food, if it has an event catered, for example, the corporation will want to use a caterer whose facilities are evaluated as safe by the USDA and local inspectors, workplace safety, TSA/NTSB and/or Customs if it uses airlines, building and road inspectors for any buildings or roads it may use;)

$the legislative process (corporations benefit more than any of us from the work of our Reps and Senators - both Fed and State - so why should they object to helping pay for the upkeep of politicians, the buildings they work in, and the cost of printing and updating all the new laws the Corporations get passed?)

$law enforcement: (every corporation will at some point face a theft, a threatening employee, a vehicle involved in an accident) If they use law enforcement in any capacity to make a profit, they owe the law enforcement entities some financial support.

I could go on and on, explaining all the ways corporations suck off the teat of tax-supported entities like schools and utilities and public property, but the bottom line is:

you play, you pay.