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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: The Affordability Tour Kicks Off
Date: 12/18/25 10:43 AM
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For example, health care premiums provided by employers are generally tax deductible.

What happens when the corporation pays no taxes, to deduct the health insurance premiums from? Then paying health insurance becomes just another "cost to be minimized", like the number of Proles on the payroll.

A few years ago, some 130 countries, including the US, agreed to a minimum 15% tax rate on corporations.

His nibs is trying to find a workaround, so that corporations can have another tax cut.

Much of Treasury’s recent mischief involves weakening the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax (CAMT), which is supposed to ensure that the largest corporations pay federal income taxes equal to at least 15 percent of the profits they report to investors, regardless of what tax breaks they can use under the regular tax rules. But the Treasury has recently proposed regulations to limit the CAMT’s impacts on cryptocurrency companies, energy companies, and private equity firms, according to the Times.

itep.org - Trump goes outside the law to give even more tax cuts to the wealthy

Steve
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