Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Video: Corporate Taxes Hurt the People

Professsor Steve Horwitz in the following video explains how corporate taxes hurt the people, and not the rich. (Thanks to Michael Moroney of LearnLiberty.org and George Mason University for sending this)

Here is the prologue from LearnLiberty.org
Corporations are not monoliths -- they are made up of individuals, including workers and non-wealthy shareholders. So are corporations distinct from the people that comprise them? When corporations are taxed, who pays the tax? Economics professor Steven Horwitz shows why a tax on corporations is not the equivalent of a tax on the wealthy. Instead, workers and consumers will pay these taxes. A tax on a corporation is also a tax on the workers who work at the corporation, the consumers who buy from the corporation, and the shareholders who own the corporation as part of their retirement fund.

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