• Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sigh. More importantly, they’re not structured in such a way that they only benefit small and at most medium companies, they apply more or less across the board, which automatically makes the giant megacorps the biggest winners as they can pay the people to figure out how to best exploit this.
    If anything, they should have funded tax breaks to small companies on the backs of VW or Vattenfall or Rheinmetall, or ideally their CEOs and stockholders directly. Fleece the ones who do nothing good, nevermind with their money.

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      1 year ago

      Vattenfall? Like the swedish state-owned supplier of hydropower? That Vattenfall?

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      Corporate taxes typically get passed onto the consumer under the logic if it costs me .5% more to make a product or provide a service then the price will rise by that .5%.

      By making the cuts across the board this in theory drops the price of domestic goods which should encourage Germans to buy more locally thus stimulating the economy.

      Directed tax cuts might hurt the stimulus so they are aiming wider.

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          Except it doesn’t? If your competitor drops the price, because the tax break makes that possible while maintaining the same profit margins, then you are likely to do the same in order to not lose sales.

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        People are already paying for these costs increase, so the companies will pocket the tax cut and tout their record profits.

        As we’ve seen after the pandemic when the inflation was soaring, companies rose their prices to keep their margin as they were instead of taking a hit on their profit.

        Under the current state of capitalism, if a company isn’t making the maximum profit, that company is failing.

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          If the company could make up for the change in price with an increase in volume they could drop the price. If a competitor drops the price they will likely drop the price at least in theory.

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        People are already paying for these costs increase, so the companies will pocket the tax cut and tout their record profits.

        As we’ve seen after the pandemic when the inflation was soaring, companies rose their prices to keep their margin as they were instead of taking a hit on their profit.

        Under the current state of capitalism, if a company isn’t making the maximum profit, that company is failing.