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> employees income taxes?

that's the employee's contribution, not the company's.




Right, but if the company didn't create the job, the income tax collected would be zero.

I'm not saying the income tax collected is purely coming from the company, but take Amazon for example - their economic activity creates jobs which pay salaries that are taxed.


> their economic activity creates jobs

yes, but the employee would've gotten another job else where, so it's _not_ the company that's creating the taxation benefit! They therefore, should not be given the benefit of attributing that taxation (for PR purposes)!

The company did make some investment which led to the job - but they did said investment for their own benefit, not to create more jobs for which taxation can be levied.


They would have gotten a job elsewhere? But that’s not always the case. Sometimes there is no other job.




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