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Comment It is not possible to tax a corporation (Score 0) 76

All corporate revenue comes from its customers
A corporation has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders -- no one else
If a government taxes corporate revenue or profit, the money will need to come from its customers. Unless of course they reduce staff, or executive salaries

Rather than tax the corporation itself, the tax needs to apply to the individuals receiving the disbursements from that profit -- namely those shareholders and executives.

Comment "Justice" for Profit (Score 3, Interesting) 92

The US prison system involves many prisons run by publicly-traded corporations
(see https://news.law.fordham.edu/j...)

Thus any judge, prosecutor, police officer or even jury member is in conflict of interest if they have stock in either of the two main companies that run prisons
Is it any wonder that the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world?
(see https://worldpopulationreview....)

If you want to know who the corporations are:
https://www.marketscreener.com...
https://www.marketscreener.com...

Comment Energy requirements don't change (Score 1) 273

The amount of energy needed to run a vehicle is fixed.

You can get that energy from fuels, or you can get it from electricity.
Looking only at gasoline, 1 litre of gasoline yields 8.8 kWh (source: https://www.calculateme.com/en...)

According to Petro Canada there are 40billion litres of gasoline consumed in Canada each year. (source: https://www.pumptalk.ca/2007/0...)
This works out to 3.5 x 10^11 kWh (350 trillion)
Or to use the units required for the next comparison, 350,000 giga watt-hours In 2019 in all of Canada, the generating capacity in 2019 was 144.6 gigawatts -- note the missing "hours" though (source: https://www.statista.com/stati...)

Although the proposed Site C dam is meeting with opposition, it is still schedule for completion in 2025 -- and will add 1.1 gigawatts.

Unless we have an alternative source of electricity, there won't be very many people driving cars by 2050.
Unless we come up with a method of storing electricity other than the battery by then, there won't be all that many more electric cars, either.

This is a supremely rough calculation, and ignores diesel fuel sales (which would make the electricity requirement higher), and it ignores the efficiency advantage of electric vehicles (which would make the electricity requirement lower)

Comment Re:Corporate tax? Who pays those? (Score 1) 332

I'm surprised this insight is so far down the list.
The baseline is shareholders' return on investment.
That must be maintained, or the company fails to survive.

Any tax on the corporation -- either by taxing revenue or profit -- is reflected in increased prices.
In Amazon's case, there is insufficient competition to hold those prices down.
So in reality, consumers pay more, shareholders' ROI remains the same, and the gov't gets the difference.

Let's talk about limiting executive compensation -- at the very least set a maximum ratio so that no exec can receive more than n times the lowest wages paid to employees.

Comment Re:Too many women (Score 1) 40

really. inner city children appear to have use of smart phones.

"Inner city children" are only a small fraction of the people "15 to 24" worldwide, and most people in the 15-24 range wouldn't classify themselves as "children" anyway.
The claim is that 1/3 of all people in that age range lack internet access. That may be true.

Considering the vast amount of disinformation on the internet over the past few years, perhaps it is best to shield them from exposure to that.

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