Muscatine

Business usually operates with some idea of their acceptable ROI (return on investment).  When they are taxed, they do one or more of seveal things:

1.  Increase the price of their product (pass the tax on to the consumer).

2.  Reduce their overhead (usually by finding some way to increase efficiency - which most often results in fewer employees).

3.  As an adjunct to (2.) move to a lower wage country.

4.  Go out of business.

  They may temporarily cut into their ROI (the owners/stockholders absorb the cost), but not for long. 

Liberals do not understand this.

If they understand this, then they are disingenuous when they say they want to tax the corporations.  What they really mean is they want place the burden on the wage earner, the consumer, the working man.  Because, if they understand this, then they also understand that that is what they are really doing.  Lying hypocrits, just like always.

You conservatives seem always to take the narrow, simplistic approach. All corporations are not alike. There are some which are making gobs of money and can pay a little in taxes without raising prices. There are some of those who can’t raise prices because of competition and will have to settle for lower profits. There are some which provide services or products which I (or you, perhaps) don’t use. For example, those who drink fine whiskey or wear fine jewelry can pay any taxes passed on to them, but this "working man" won’t.