Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Meghan McCain Has Panic Attack After The View Begins Accepting Socialism" video.
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@bruno.6610 1. By having the government pay for privatized services, turning public tax dollars into private profits.
2. By not having them pay for things they benefit most from. For example, if Apple shipped a million phones from China, and I buy one, they have benefited a million times more than me from protected shipping lanes. If a transport truck had brought 10k phones to my area, they benefited 10000x more than me for the road. Etc. Etc. Republicans don't like consumption taxes, when they're doing the consuming. That's having the public pay for things corporations benefit most from.
3. Not necessarily rich, but their base ... subsidizing farmers (including giant corporate run farms). Pretty sure oil companies get subsidies, as well.
4. You can play semantics, saying that tax breaks and loopholes are letting them keep their own money, but if that same government is setting a yearly budget, saying this is what the government needs to operate, but then let's them get away with not paying, or paying little, then everyone else has to put in more, to compensate. That is having the public pay for their government, for them. If Amazon really paid zero federal taxes, then they're getting benefits they didn't pay for.
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