Does Taxing the Employer {Businesses/Corporations} Really Make Sense?
by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Liberty -vs- Tyranny Following my recent post entitled Property Rights -vs- Progressive Statism I received, via e-mail, the following question from a RN USA subscriber. "Why do voters (or non-voters) think that placing taxes on the employer rather than the individual somehow takes away the cost of taxes to the individual?" Certainly a valid question, yet one I suspect a fairly large segment of our populace have never taken the time to consider. As I sat pondering my reader's question it occurred to me most people fail to question because they have been conditioned over many years to believe this only affects businesses and corporations, IE: the employers. Or put another way, they have grown to accept the mentality that taxing businesses and corporations heavily it somehow reduces the tax burden on the individual. If just scratching the surface I suppose a case can be made that by tax...