Last Updated on Friday, 6 April 2012 07:13 Written by dbhalling Friday, 6 April 2012 04:30

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The USA now has the highest corporate tax rate in the World.  The sad point is when you add in State corporate taxes, the US was already had the highest corporate tax rate in the World.  This will hurt the US’s innovation, fewer people will invest in startups and fewer people will invest in new technologies.

The Marxists in the Administration will argue that this has no effect on whether companies invest in the US, or hire employees here, or whether people decide to start businesses in the US.  Of course, they have absolutely no evidence to back up their assertion.  In fact, all the evidence is against them.  But they will argue that we have to “invest” in our future.  This comes from an administration that believes

CONSUMPTION CREATES WEALTH.

No this is not a joke, but exactly (see Food Stamps) what the so called economists advising this administration believe.  Compared to these economists, the FLAT EARTH SOCIETY seems like they are part of the Enlightenment.  This doublethink is compounded by the idea that we are investing by giving money to Solyndra and other companies organized by Obama political cronies.  These “investments” are political investments by Obama, not investments in the US’s future.  Real investment by the government would be reducing the size and regulatory burden of the Government, see Austerity: Why it is Key for Both Short Term and Long Term Economic Growth.

Statist from both political parties will argue that the effective tax rate of many corporations is much lower than the nominal tax rate.  They neglect to mention that this only applies to large multinational companies.  These large multinational are able to escape the high corporate tax rate, because they have subsidiaries around the world and can shift income and production to low tax countries.  Raising their tax rate, just means they will move more and more of their production and income outside the US.  Large multinational companies are net job destroyers according to the Kauffman Foundation, so they should not be our focus.  Net new jobs and economic growth come from startups.  US startups do pay close to the nominal corporate tax rate and these draconian tax rates along with failure to provide an effective patent system, and regulations are killing our economy.

For a great article on this point see America has the Highest Taxes in the World.