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"The $45m he spent to fight this would've allowed us to renovate this school. The $12b he'd owe would let us renovate 100 schools. Or get X thousand of the homeless off the streets. Or fixed 10 million potholes."
Make his name responsible for those things not happening.
Define corporate profits.
Corporations have incredible amounts of ways to avoid saying they made any money at all, while keeping all the money as if they were profits but technically not.
Just look at Hollywood accounting for an extreme example.
Company A is spun up, "rents" everything from it's parent, Company B, to make a movie. Movie releases and all the "profit" is marked as loss because Company A still owes Company B an insane amount.
it's almost like corporations should be required to report all assets every year along with Thier taxable expenditures...
Yeah I just noticed I had replied to the wrong comment
Corporations don't really pay taxes anymore. In the 50s 90% of taxes came from corporattions and businesses, now 90% is from individuals. They usually pay nothing, and even when they do pay something, they can reach back and unpay it with losses, for 3 years, or reach forward like 10 years to offset losses against tax.
To say nothing of all the tax breaks. They pay next to nothing, often nothing. Sometimes they pay negative taxes.
See my edit since it seems everyone missed what I was going for.
Edit: also, turns out I replied to the wrong comment. My bad