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WolfpackN64 on 21 June 2017
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Aeolus451 said:
WolfpackN64 said:

It's not stealing money, it demanding just compensation for leaving many people who created value for the company unemployed. The incentivize system has thouroughly failed. Every state is bidding against each other in lowering business taxes to get big companies to go to their country and it's slowly destroying public funding. You know who usually have to pay for lowered corporate taxes? The regular taxpayers, but usually in thousands of different fees so you don't get the idea you directly pay more taxes. In Belgium, they lowered corporate tax from 33% to 25% (which is still a fair tax), but left myriad of backdoor large companies can exploit, while giving them cuts on social costs (which is very unfair towards smaller business owners). Meanwhile, our VAT is at 21%, 21%!!!! Taxes on electricity and water have gun up substantially.

We need to draw a line. Large companies have to learn to pay their damn taxes and as long as they're profitable, stay put. It's fair towards regular taxpayers and smaller companies who can't use any of the basically state subsidies large companies get.

No, it is stealing because you don't own company nor do they owe you for anything you did in trade for that money. You're not entitled to others' money that you didn't earn. End of story. 

Since many companies got state subsidies in some way or another, I'd say most states are entitles to take a piece of the pie as recompensation for both the public good and the workers. How would you keep jobs here without ruining public finances?