> I don't mind paying taxes, or at least paying taxes once. What I
>> mind is tax policy that is inefficient and net harms people,
>> especially ordinary working-class people, and that destroys small
>> businesses but doesn't destroy big ones.
>>
>> Once tax avoidance becomes more important, and more profitable, than
>> real productivity, tax policy has become destructive.
>>
>> John
>
>Dead on! Mega-Corporate externalization of costs is part and parcel
>of this.
>
Once taxes get as large as they are now, tax policy shapes the economy; it almost *makes* the economy. And the politicoes design tax policy for political purposes. They mostly have no clue about the actual shaping effects.
John