Sigh. More importantly, they’re not structured in such a way that they only benefit small and at most medium companies, they apply more or less across the board, which automatically makes the giant megacorps the biggest winners as they can pay the people to figure out how to best exploit this.
If anything, they should have funded tax breaks to small companies on the backs of VW or Vattenfall or Rheinmetall, or ideally their CEOs and stockholders directly. Fleece the ones who do nothing good, nevermind with their money.
this in theory drops the price of domestic goods
Yeah but that’s the specific part where this falls apart.
People are already paying for these costs increase, so the companies will pocket the tax cut and tout their record profits.
As we’ve seen after the pandemic when the inflation was soaring, companies rose their prices to keep their margin as they were instead of taking a hit on their profit.
Under the current state of capitalism, if a company isn’t making the maximum profit, that company is failing.
People are already paying for these costs increase, so the companies will pocket the tax cut and tout their record profits.
As we’ve seen after the pandemic when the inflation was soaring, companies rose their prices to keep their margin as they were instead of taking a hit on their profit.
Under the current state of capitalism, if a company isn’t making the maximum profit, that company is failing.
Here we go again. Germany is about to get fucked by corporations like the US.
Why always fucking corporate tax cuts? How about people tax cuts? You know, when people have more money, they spend more. Thus giving more money to the corporates as well.
I mean, I’m already taxed 15% on income tax, another 11% on social and health security, then whenever I buy anything, 21% of the price is tax (so if I spend all my income every month, it was basically another 21% of income tax). Petrol has another tax extra (don’t know how much). When I bought a piece of land I paid another 4% as a tax (and I still had to pay for all administrative tasks like changing the owner in the registry). And I pay tax for owning the land every year. I’m pretty sure I forgot some tax.
I think I’m well over 40%. Not quite happy about it, though.
Nope. Company by law exists to make a profit. So if people are used to a price, they won’t be making it cheaper just because they now can make it cheaper.
do you have a source for this? because obviously it‘s utter bullshit, just looking at the recent tax cuts for german gas stations which were decidedly NOT „passed onto the consumer“
No Germany! You’ve been doing so well!
They just like to put out the perception that they’re better, really Germany is a shit show too
A lot of politics and media are importing american ways of communicating and fearmongering.
It didn’t work for America, but okay
