Should we be harsh on corporations?

[Bomster]

I would say so but I’m biased, and my dad keeps telling me it’s wrong to take from those who make something of themselves. So what’s right? Are liberals/Democrats too harsh on corporations?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

That's such a vague question that it's completely unanswerable.

[Bomster]

That's such a vague question that it's completely unanswerable.

I guess what I’m asking is that is it wrong or right to issue stronger regulations and taxes on corporations?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

That's such a vague question that it's completely unanswerable.

I guess what I’m asking is that is it wrong or right to issue stronger regulations and taxes on corporations?

Depends on the tax or regulation.

[Bomster]

That's such a vague question that it's completely unanswerable.

I guess what I’m asking is that is it wrong or right to issue stronger regulations and taxes on corporations?

Depends on the tax or regulation.

Could you elaborate?

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

That's such a vague question that it's completely unanswerable.

I guess what I’m asking is that is it wrong or right to issue stronger regulations and taxes on corporations?

Depends on the tax or regulation.

Could you elaborate?

Some taxes and regulations are useful and some aren't. It depends on your goals and the specific impacts of the policy. Universally declaring whether we should be harsher or more lenient isn't a particularly constructive perspective.

[John Dule]

That's such a vague question that it's completely unanswerable.

You could post this in literally every thread he makes.

[ultraviolet]

Can you have your political existential crisis somewhere else please?

[It’s so Joever]

Well what your dad fails to mention is that these people have utilized society to increase their own wealth. Is it truly unfair to have them give back to the same society which fostered their growth in the first place? The point of taxes and social programs in a lot of cases (but certainly not all) is to level the starting field so that the people who succeed do so based on their own merit, and not on how much their parents own.
As for regulations, again these companies have benefited from “regulations” as well. The regulations/laws which protect property rights have created an environment where it is feasible to have business growth, and without these those big corporations would not exist in their current form.
Regulations are necessary at some degree, the argument everyone should be making is where that degree. To get rid of all regulations out of some moral crisis would ironically murder corporations and capitalism in general.

Your dad seems to assume that corporations are 100% self made, but that is not true. They have only been able to grow due to regulations protecting business rights, due to a law-abiding society, and because the resources they needed to begin were provided to them in the first place.


Obviously not all taxes and regulations are effective, but it seems like you are more interested in the morality piece on this.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Corporations, despite whatever Romney and the SCOTUS might say, are not people and there's no such thing as being "harsh" or "nice" to them. They are institutions, subject to state regulation like all human institutions.

[Santander]

Can we please ban this guy?

[Chips]

Yes.