Eliminating the corporate tax has been a long time coming, per the current leaderships agenda. Each year we chip away at revenue sources that can afford lobbyists - corporate taxes, production taxes from oil and gas, income taxes that save the wealthiest significant money, etc. Each time we are promised that this will increase business activity and growth will more than offset any revenue losses. Each time we suffer more revenue losses and are told we need more taxes on everyone else to help offset them, but we need to give the lobbied interest just a few more tax breaks and business will pick up, new revenue will more than offset the tax losses.
Taxes are damaging to business and to personal wealth, there is no doubt about that. But lack of responsible government, infrastructure, education, public safety, etc. is also damaging. The constant "crisis" mode is damaging. Taxes are just PART of the equation, which is why you see Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, San Francisco and Brooklyn booming in spite of being high tax areas. And for how many decades are we supposed to listen to the "low taxes means more revenue" line of thinking before someone demands to see the evidence that actually supports it --- or the people saying it pay attention to the evidence to the contrary.
Here's a map of corporate tax rates, tell me if you think business activity seems readily correlated to the corporate tax rate, because I don't see it:
Here is a map of personal income taxes, I don't see a strong correlation of high-net worth areas and low income taxes.
Here is a map of oil and gas production in the US, see if you can tell based on the production map which areas have high severance/production tax rates (as opposed to just where oil and gas reserves are located):
If only we could find a revenue source to improve our infrastructure and fix crumbling roads and bridges...
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I'm "meh" on the grocery tax.
The grocery sales tax just leads to more fun debates: what counts a grocery item? Is a can of Red Bull a grocery item as well as a gallon of milk? What about a pumpkin used to make pie vs. one used to decorate your house for Halloween? How about vitamins? If groceries are tax free and we have a tax free weekend for clothing, why are feminine products taxed? For that matter, why are any healthcare products taxed? If food in a grocery store isn't taxed, why are restaurant sales - it is a competitive disadvantage for restaurants! The actual answer is "too bad, we need a wide variety of things to survive but the government is going to arbitrarily decide not to tax some things."
Ignoring all that (which really does come up in states with grocery tax exceptions), excluding the grocery tax is always a higher savings for wealthier families. Tax on a box of Mac n Cheese is 9 cents, tax on a lobster dinner for two is a few bucks. Danged if you do, danged if you don't...