since you want to re-argue arguments you already lost...
tex
The "rich" or shall I say corporations, are running their trucks on the roads my taxes help pay for and they are making deals with local and state governments to pay less taxes than I do and wear those roads out a lot more than I do. They need police to keep order, and governments too. They need to be protected from invading armies and the such. They need to pay their fair share of taxes, just like anyone else.
tex
It would be nice if you came up with some real numbers,
even though I, and others on here have already shown that corporations pay more in taxes then they receive in services... I am willing to show how attitudes like yours not only screw them, but harm small American corporations as well...
and since you like numbers so well I started with one... and it's direct effect small American business...
The Impact of Regulatory Costs on Small Firms
This research updates and further delineates the the burden imposed by federal regulations on small business.
The research finds that the cost of federal regulation compliance totals $1.1 trillion; the cost per employee for firms with fewer than 20 employees is $7,647.
Environmental and tax compliance regulations appear to be the main cost drivers in determining the severity of the impact on small firms.
Cost per employee for all firms of Federal Regulations is $5,633
The regulatory costs included in this report focus the resource costs over and above those that show up in the federal budget and agency personnel charts. The report provides an accounting of the non-budgeted costs imposed on individuals and businesses to comply with regulations.
Other important regulatory costs are not captured in this report’s estimates, most notably activities by state and local governments, indirect burdens, and general equilibrium effects. Each of the 50 American states has an array of regulations superimposed on federal regulations. These costs are not explicitly considered here but do add to the nation’s total regulatory burden
source SBA
so in your liberal effort to "tax the rich" and enforce draconian regulatory compliance on them... you are in effect screwing the very companies you are claiming are being hurt by unfair foreign competition..
under our law "all are equal" there is no regulations for the rich that the poor are exempt from,...
so for every misguided law regulating or taxing the rich,,, the small are hurt and effected in a greater more harsh way... while it's economies of scale that larger corporations are able to minimize their costs... the effect of more taxes and more regulations are the same.. small American corporations will suffer the most...
So even before we start to export, we as American Business have more regulatory cost then most importers have in total costs,... yet you want to increase the "rich evil corporations" tax burden? so in effect you should be blamed for the trade deficit as it is your desire to tax the rich that imposes this huge burden on small American corporations..