Is it time for a corporate 'meritocratic' tax code?

[hootinholler]

By meritocratic, I mean we should reward corporate citizenship and punish uncaring corporations.

Keep Jobs in the US and you get a tax break, outsource them and you get a penalty.

Keep capital funds in US banks and get a break, Keep them in the Caymans and you get a penalty.

Meet environmental standards early and you get the break, don't meet them and you get a penalty.

Invest in green research, 'new' energy, disaster resistance, ..., you get the idea.

We have long used tax code to steer how citizens behave, why not apply it to corporations.

-Hoot

[tk2kewl]

1. when wasn't it time

:shrug:

[MindPilot]

2. The corporation is a person; the fetus is a person,

the brain dead is a person. All of them have more personhood rights than the citizen.

If corporations are going to be persons then they should be treated as such. They should be subject to random search and property seizure, be prohibited from having relationships with other corporations that are not biblically approved and subject to a death penalty for "capital" crimes.

[1932]

3. Tax code should "incentivize" paying more money to workers and

"disincentivize" paying disproportionate and huge salaries to executives (including, through stock options).