No person who works for a corporation should be required to pay taxes.

[byronius]

12. A little history.

From Gotham, the excellent history of NYC.

The early Dutch of New York (1600's) invented the idea of the corporation. The Dutch court agreed as long as the corporation would serve the community first, not the shareholders. If it did not serve the community, it could be sued and disbanded.

The British of New York (1700's) adopted the corporate form wholesale, keeping in place the restriction on serving the public first.

The Americans of New York (1800's) also adopted the idea, same restrictions.

However, in the 1930's, as a socially violent response to the growing labor movement, the wealthy stacked the courts with judges who ruled that the corporation no longer had to serve the public. And thus the form was wrenched from its origins and made a creature of pure profit that has plagued us ever since.

I can think of at least fifty corporations that would be disbanded under the original definition. At the earliest opportunity, we should return to the original language.

Hoarding is a disease. It makes human beings into monsters capable of mass murder. We're witnessing this truth right now.

Return the corporation to the original definition, and levy a 99% confiscatory tax on all incomes over one million dollars per year as recompense for the damage done to the nation by the change in corporate definition.

And then dissolve and nationalize the assets of the most criminal corporations. Comcast and Koch industries, for starters.