Originally posted by DarthSkywalker0
Ok, dadudmon hold your horses. The effective corporate tax rate is really dependent on which measure you want to rely on. I happen to find the treasury data to be the most accurate.As I already noted, the effective corporate tax rate is not an "effective" argument against the tax bill due to hidden taxes in the form of compliance costs/forced investment.
This is why why capital tax reductions have the greatest economic response. That being said, the economic growth that we are receiving is certainly not principally due to the tax bill(more on this in my 6-part Trump analysis).
Originally posted by lazybones
Not quite sure what you're getting at here. That wasn't a misinterpretation but simply an alternative interpretation to what you were putting forward. I understood what you were saying, but was just proposing another interpretation because I didn't think yours was the most charitable.You, on the other hand, clearly didn't understand what I was arguing in regards to corporate taxes. You thought that I was denying that the US has a higher average corporate rate than other countries. Hence your big reply trying to prove otherwise. In reality, I was just taking issue with parading averages as they obscure some pretty massive nuances and details which the study by ITEP details but the Tax Foundation and other studies omit.