alt Hacker News> The top companies (and the wealthiest for that matter) already pay the majority in taxes.
When you hoard far more than just a slim majority, paying a majority isn’t unexpected and it can still be unfair. But I think you are talking about federal personal income tax not corporate tax.
> We should be allowing businesses to write off research and development.
They already do in various ways.
> More tax money just gets wasted at the top. California is a good example of this.
I agree California is wasteful. But we can tax and just give the money directly to people.
> The main issue is that those companies should be require to hire US citizens and not outsourcing, for these jobs.
Not even close to the main issue. Why not just redistribute the gains instead of playing games with these other schemes?
Do you live in California?
I mean sure it might be wasteful (name one entity private or public that doesn’t suffer from assholes and corruption), but the quality of life here is far better than in Texas or any other state.
We have labor rights, environmental protection, hell even the ethical farming practices like how eggs are produced. Life here is objectively better for the people.
It’s obviously more expensive. There’s demand for people to live here. Even if some people leave more want to move here or wish they could. Shitting on California is 90% of the time some form of cope for many people. They know they could never make it here so the best they can do is complain about it from whatever **hole they’re in.