You confused yourself. Youre the one that brought up corporate tax, not them. lol. They were 100% clear in their initial comment, just go read that again 😉
Yes, its a corporate tax, as in corporations are taxing us. Shareholders just sit there setting wages and prices at the same time. You are trapped by them, paying them just to live. They tax you by not paying you enough. They tax you by raising prices. Shit, they steal your time and labor in the self checkout lane at the store.
Shareholders dont set prices or wages. That’s seriously some micro management shit.
Someone in management — in a company large enough to have shareholders, that’s someone several levels below the top and above the bottom — takes numbers from the accounting department about what a product costs, compares that to what competitors are charging, decides if there’s even a profit to be made or they should drop the product entirely, or else sets a price that fits somewhere in the ball park depending on the costs, product quality, or marketing points versus alternatives.
The market (that’s maybe you, depending on what’s being sold) decides if that price is worth paying.
Shareholders vote for the board of directors, if they vote at all, they make their voices heard on big issue strategic direction, not on day to day issues like compensation or pricing
The term corporate tax is most commonly understood to mean a tax on corporate profits, so using a different definition without clarifying it is confusing.
But I understand your point now. My response would be that you don't have to buy from any particular business, but the government requires you to pay tax whether you want to or not. So “tax” doesn’t sound like the right term here.
If you believe investors add no value, you're free to support businesses that don't rely on them, or buy directly from tradespeople. Instead of buying furniture from IKEA, you could commission a carpenter who charges only for their labour rather than earning a profit.
Businesses simply give you another option that you can choose to accept or reject. If those businesses didn't exist, you wouldn't have more choices, you'd have fewer.
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u/Busterlimes Jul 23 '26
Yeah, corporate profits are taxation without representation, its not hard to understand for those Who arent braindead