Tanagrabelle t1_j9pfb0l wrote
Reply to comment by BADman2169420 in ELI5: If people say that corporations own the government, why do people also want to expand the government? by BADman2169420
Your topic reads like the opposite.
I'm probably not going to be able to express it well, and indeed might even say it very badly. I'll try, though. The U.S. government has one purpose. To keep the states united so they don't start going to war against each other. So there have to be standard laws that apply across all of the states, and laws that apply only in certain states must not violate those laws. Now just replace the word "laws" with "taxes". Sort of, anyway. The taxes that we pay go towards being able to pay the national debt.
Now, this is going to sound ridiculous as I don't know how to say it, but the idea here is that companies don't want to pay taxes, so they try to own government officials to have those people stop rulings that will make them pay taxes. So the folks who want the government to have more authority mean to make those companies pay the tax they should owe.
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