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That argument proves too much [0]. If you accept that reasoning, it's impossible to truly tax or fine Jeff Bezos, he's only going to make his customers pay more, so we should give him a 0% tax rate, shouldn't we?

(I actually sort of like the occasionally-suggested idea of abolishing all taxations on legal entity and collecting taxations only on individual profits, i.e. don't tax Amazon Inc., only tax its shareholders' dividends and capital gains. But that would be a radical restructuring of the economy and very far from what we're talking about.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proving_too_much



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