Giving companies more money (loans, tax-breaks) only increases investor payouts, not expansion

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@Tim_Richardson

I was pointing out the “reductio ad absurdum” fallacy of the simplistic argument of the article. Of course, it works both ways; if it is true that a slightly higher tax on profits is net good, then an ever higher tax must be even better

Except that the article isn’t saying that. It is saying that lowering taxes doesn’t help a very specific thing. That does not imply that raising taxes does the opposite, it implies that we need to do something different to help the thing we’re trying to help (which may or may not include some raising of taxes).