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Apologies, I misread some of this yesterday.

The easy way to justify why corporations get to deduct their spending, is it encourages corporations to spend. Something that a for profit company would not necessarily do otherwise. With the obvious note that spend sent to people is taxed as income for that person.

Now, I agree that this gets super odd when people also make an odd "corporations are people" argument.

As for my assertion that this is effectively arguing for price stabilization. The entire thing hinges on the complaint that costs have been going up. Which, of course the price of a good that has increasing demand is going up. I'm not sure how to read that other than an appeal to price stabilization for early consumers.



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