(02-14-2019, 04:10 PM)The Drifter Wrote:

(02-14-2019, 04:08 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: Corporations don't pay taxes.

They pass that cost on to the consumer........

The corporation charges the highest price they feel that the consumer is willing to pay regardless of taxes.
If all of the corporations have the same marginal tax, and all the buyers of stock have the same marginal expectations of all corporations, and the market is perfectly competitive, then yes, the cost of a new tax will be passed directly to the consumer.
If any one of those things is false, the cost of the new tax is not passed on, or it could even be amplified.

They are false here. Wall St doesn't expect to receive a dividend from Amazon.  They don't even expect Amazon to buy shares back. They do expect these things from many of Amazon's competitors.

Amazon is extremely unusual.

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